Stephen Fry Quotes

I think people talk about one love, but there is the need to love and the need to be loved are not the same thing and I suppose that's... and it's working that out is part of growing up.

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• I have got the best of both worlds; growing up in Edinburgh and now living outside Glasgow.

  

  Magnus Magnusson
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Best

• When I was growing up, we were taught in school that North Koreans, and especially the North Korean leadership, were all devils.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Up
  • School
  • Growing

• My mother wouldn't allow me to speak slang when I was growing up. But when I got outside, around my friends, it was 'Yo' and 'That's the joint' and 'Yo, what's up?' So I had my game for my friends and my game for my mom.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Mother

• Humans have changed ecosystems more rapidly and extensively than in any comparable period of time in human history, largely to meet rapidly growing demands for food, fresh water, timber, fiber and fuel. This has resulted in a substantial and largely irreversible loss in the diversity of life on Earth.

  

  Gary Larson
  • Life
  • Time
  • History

• You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Growing
  • Matter
  • Grandfather

• Growing up, I was so shy, but it was weird because I was the complete opposite on stage. I was just free to be myself.

  

  Manika
  • Up
  • Free
  • Growing

• When we were growing up, we had all these crazy, in-your-face guys around the house. For us, it was like, 'Ugh! Actors again.'

  

  Inga Cadranel
  • Up
  • House
  • Growing

• Because I see my own boys growing, and I see other children growing and I just have such a connection.

  

  Sam Trammell
  • Children
  • Growing
  • See

• I'm not sure why I still think of myself as 28 - maybe that's the point where you start growing up, and then you just feel the same for evermore.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Up
  • Why
  • Growing

• I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Up
  • Music
  • Growing

• We didn't have a whole lot of money when I was growing up either. I would always ask for magic books or magic tricks for my birthday or for Christmas and the rest of the year I either had to mow lawns or find part time jobs to help supplement the cost of doing magic.

  

  Lance Burton
  • Up
  • Time
  • Money

• You need to be growing and getting better, and in L.A., it's so hard to get bookings. You literally have to pay clubs to book you. It's pay to play, and then you only get 30 minutes. That's no way to get good.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • Good
  • Book
  • Growing

• Sometimes it feels like I've been in the business forever, but then other times, it feels like kind of a flash. Growing up, all I wanted to do was sing. All I wanted to do was get on a bus and ride around the country and sing for people and be a household name.

  

  Josh Turner
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• I love '80s rock music. I was fascinated with Stevie Nicks when I was growing up.

  

  Bresha Webb
  • Up
  • Music
  • Growing

• I talked to Marvel about 'Thor' at one point, but I didn't want to do Thor. It wasn't something I read growing up, really; it wasn't one of the books I loved.

  

  Louis Leterrier
  • Up
  • Growing

• Family is funny, and so it was not an unnatural thing for me, growing up, not to know anything about my dad or about the Vance side of our family.

  

  Courtney B. Vance
  • Up
  • Family
  • Funny

• As a post-Holocaust kid, growing up in a neighborhood with a lot of Jewish refugees, I had got the idea there were no Jews left in Europe. But I found in my European wanderings that many of them had gone back and rebuilt their lives.

  

  Mark Kurlansky
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Holocaust

• In this age of growing interconnectedness, we understand that turning our backs on the world is simply not an option.

  

  Douglas Alexander
  • World
  • Age
  • Growing

• Consider the nematode roundworm, the most abundant of all animals. Four out of five animals on Earth are nematode worms — if all solid materials except nematode worms were to be eliminated, you could still see the ghostly outline of most of it in nematode worms.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Earth
  • Animal
  • Inspiration

• The hair and makeup is very important in a fashion picture. When I create a look for a girl, it starts with the makeup. Sometimes it takes an entire day to find the look.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Important
  • Girl
  • Day

• Readers are paramount. I live to write books for them.

  

  Jeffery Deaver
  • Live

• I hate the feeling of having hair on my neck.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Feeling
  • Hate
  • Hair

• On 'Death In Paradise,' I had a CGI pet lizard and had to react to nothing, which was hideously embarrassing.

  

  Ben Miller
  • Embarrassing
  • Death In Paradise
  • Lizard

• I think people talk about one love, but there is the need to love and the need to be loved are not the same thing and I suppose that's... and it's working that out is part of growing up.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Growing
  • Needs