Stephen Fry Quotes

You don't get depressed because bad things happen to you. That's getting pissed off and annoyed. That's reasonable. Someone hits you in the face you go ow, you know that's... but depression is something that happens like weather to you inside you.

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• I'm a big Otis Redding fan, Al Green, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye. My hero is David Bowie. But I like the Beatles, the Stones.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Wonder
  • Hero
  • Green

• I love playing characters, so I'm always telling my agents, 'Don't worry if the character description is something you think I'm not. Let me try to be that person.'

  

  Vanessa Lengies
  • Character
  • Think
  • Person

• I wrote and finished the script for 'Man in the Middle' two weeks after the September 11 bombing. It's a very American film about an ex-diplomat based in the Middle East, a leader in the U.S. administration who now sells used cars in the Middle East.

  

  Ziad Doueiri
  • American
  • Man
  • Leader

• As an actor, you can do what you want with your role. That's why they hire you; to take the role and make it real.

  

  Ice T
  • Real
  • Why
  • Want

• There are moments when we are incapable of exchanging a single word with anybody…it’s beyond us…

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Single
  • Moments

• You can't make your kids what you want them to be. They are who they are and you have to help them to succeed in the world as best you can.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • World
  • Children
  • Kids

• Could've sworn I heard you say Amen this morning, showing some kind of sign that you believe. Did it fall from your tongue without warning? Or just another trick to fall from your sleeve?

  

  Ben Harper
  • Believe
  • Fall
  • Morning

• Having worked in the planning field for over 18 years, I think I would be an asset during the upcoming master plan update.

  

  Paul Williams The Temptations
  • I Think
  • Planning
  • Master

• This will without doubt play into the hands of separatists in Kosovo and Montenegro wanting to leave the (Yugoslav) federation

  

  Igor Ivanov
  • Play
  • Doubt
  • Kosovo

• We have a guideline that requires this rung to be at least 9 1/2 inches wide.

  

  Hal Stratton
  • Requires
  • Guideline

• To become a lawyer you must discard your ethics and become an eloquent devil that views justice as god.

  

  Kane Morgan
  • God
  • Justice
  • Devil

• I enjoy talking to you more than anybody else because I never feel I am giving myself away and so can admit to shady, dishonest, crawling, cowardly, unjust, arrogant, snobbish, lecherous, perverted and generally shameful feelings that I don't want anybody else to know about; but most of all because I am always on the verge of violent laughter when talking to you.If you were here, I keep thinking, we would spend the time in talk and drink and smoke and I should be laughing a lot of the time, and I should be enjoying myself a lot of the time.

  

  Kingsley Amis
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Giving

• Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.

  

  Lucius Accius
  • Men
  • Famous
  • Fame

• My truth is relevant and my songs are relevant, but I have to recalibrate myself and speed up my vibrations so that I can communicate with the voice of this generation.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Up
  • Truth
  • Generations

• I still like some of the stuff, skateboarding. Just stupid things.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Stupid
  • Stills
  • Skateboarding

• I personally am not a total pacifist. I do believe there is such a thing as a just war. I believe, for instance, the effort to destroy the Nazi regime militarily was justified military action.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Believe
  • War
  • Action

• Joy being of God was a living thing, a fountain not a cistern, one of those divine things that are possessed only as they overflow and flow away, and not easily come by because it must break into human life through the hard crust of sin and contingency. Joy came now here, now there, was held and escaped.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • God
  • Joy
  • Human Life

• Old love, middle love, the kind of love that knows itself and knows that nothing lasts, is a desperate shared wildness.

  

  Louise Erdrich
  • Love
  • Kind
  • Knows

• The man who is truly wise knows that he knows very little.

  

  Socrates
  • Man
  • Wise
  • Knows

• We've seen each other fight like heck, and seen each other absolutely humiliated...and we've ever held hands....but we still don't know each others names.

  

  Dong Young-bae Big Bang
  • Fighting
  • Drama
  • Hands

• We don't think about how the songs are going to translate so much during the writing process. Once the song is recorded, and once we're mixing, that's when it occurs to me. Then you start rehearsing to play shows. I never concern myself about how we're going to pull it off live, because I know we'll figure out a way to do it.

  

  Tad Kubler
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Live

• You don't get depressed because bad things happen to you. That's getting pissed off and annoyed. That's reasonable. Someone hits you in the face you go ow, you know that's... but depression is something that happens like weather to you inside you.

  

  Stephen Fry
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  • Reasonable