Stephen Fry Quotes

Why should I be depressed? I've got enough money. I've got a job. People like me. There is no to be depressed. That's at stupid as saying there is no reason to have asthma or there is no reason to have the measles. You know you've got it. It's there. It's not about reason.

Stephen Fry

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• Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • Learning
  • Living
  • Will

• Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Different
  • Job
  • Language

• I care less about selling tickets and getting Twitter followers than I do about making as many people laugh as I can. I'd rather make people laugh than make them know who T.J. Miller is.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • People
  • Laugh
  • I Can

• There's a difference between being posh and being rich.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Rich
  • Difference
  • Being Rich

• I would probably do anything with David Mamet. He's so great. I just love his writing.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Probably

• First, we will focus on the privatization of small and medium sized enterprises, followed by the medium size industry and then we will move on to the heavy industry.

  

  Ibrahim Rugova
  • Small
  • Focus
  • Size

• If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Business
  • Problem
  • Bank

• It's the federal government's job to secure the border.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Job
  • Government
  • Border

• They're great girls. They're very funny, they're very smart, they're fun to be with. They're very lively, as I think people can tell. And you know, they're very confident girls.

  

  Laura Bush
  • People
  • Great
  • Fun

• I find comedy to be really scary, because it can go so wrong so easily, and the margin for error is so huge - and I guess that's what makes it funny, that tension.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Funny
  • Comedy
  • Find

• When I hit a block, regardless of what I am writing, what the subject matter is, or what's going on in the plot, I go back and I read Pablo Neruda's poetry. I don't actually speak Spanish, so I read it translation. But I always go back to Neruda. I don't know why, but it calms me, calms my brain.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Brain
  • Poetry
  • Spanish

• As a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Life
  • Me
  • Confidence

• In 2012, a five-year-old girl in Shandong province described to me how ten officials had chased her six-months-pregnant mother through the fields to prevent the birth of the family's second child, a boy. She died during the procedure.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Family
  • She
  • Mother

• Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • You
  • Funny
  • Always

• I grew up doing a lot of traveling. My mom left home when she was 15 and traveled to 48 different countries and speaks six different languages. So I grew up with my eyes open. She raised me so that if my heart says something is wrong, I have to go help. What's right is right and what's wrong is wrong.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • Up
  • Different
  • Heart

• What worries me is that, because of the amount of media coverage of food, Britain seems to have become a foodie nation - but I'm not sure it actually has. I'm not sure there's been a huge change in the pantry at home or what we cook for supper.

  

  Fergus Henderson
  • Home
  • Food
  • Change

• My parents are from the Midwest. They're from Evanston, Illinois. They moved out to Los Angeles right before I was born.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Parents
  • Born
  • Los Angeles

• Realizing that life is precious the natural tendency is to trample on it, like laughing at a funeral.

  

  Lester Bangs
  • Life
  • Funeral

• From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born.

  

  Michelangelo
  • Pain
  • Thing
  • Delight

• Don't make music to make money, because that's not why you should be doing it. Have fun, be creative, and embrace the past.

  

  Robert Trujillo Metallica
  • Music
  • Money
  • Creative

• There are a lot of challenges Ofglen faces as a Handmaid. She has to live her life for the Commander of her home, Glen, and it is really a bleak life. She has no rights, and her main job is to keep him and the rest of the people in his house happy.

  

  Alexis Bledel
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• Creativity is as important as literacy and numeracy, and I actually think people understand that creativity is important - they just don't understand what it is.

  

  Ken Robinson
  • People
  • Important
  • Creativity

• People often think that reporters write their own headlines. In fact, they almost never do. The people who do write headlines are the copy editors who are the front and last lines of quality-checking in a newspaper before it goes to print.

  

  Jennifer 8. Lee
  • People
  • Quality

• Why should I be depressed? I've got enough money. I've got a job. People like me. There is no to be depressed. That's at stupid as saying there is no reason to have asthma or there is no reason to have the measles. You know you've got it. It's there. It's not about reason.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • People
  • Reason
  • Stupid