“I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.”
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I've never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind. Apart from the beauty of looks and figure, which I cannot claim to have, there's just a particular kind of ordinary-Joe quality that a film star needs to have.
It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it's Hemingway, Van Gogh... Robert Schumann has been mentioned... Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath... some of them with rather grim ends.
But happiness is no respecter of persons.
Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good.
