#stammer

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I think three or four years ago, people would have said my biggest weakness was that sometimes I was awkward on television, with my stammer, but I think they'd say that much less now.


Ed Balls


#awkward #biggest #four #i #i think

What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.


W. Somerset Maugham


#any #become #been #book #brothers

The stammer was a way of telling the world that he was not like others, a way of expressing his singularity.


Ted Morgan


#his #like #others #singularity #stammer

I knew all about Edward VIII's abdication, George VI becoming the king and having a stammer, but nothing about how he got rid of it.


Geoffrey Rush


#becoming #edward #george #got #having

From my earliest days I have enjoyed an attractive impediment in my speech. I have never permitted the use of the word stammer. I can't say it myself.


Patrick Campbell


#days #earliest #enjoyed #i #impediment

[...]if you talk any more flummery to me, Frederica, I shall give you one of my—er—icy set-downs!”(Alverstoke)


Georgette Heyer


#icy #stammer #humor

If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.


Christopher Morley


#calling #discovered #every #five #had

I've been told to speed up my delivery when I perform. But if I lose the stammer, I'm just another slightly amusing accountant.


Bob Newhart


#amusing #another #been #delivery #i

This stammer got me a home in Beverly Hills, and I'm not about to screw with it now.


Bob Newhart


#beverly #beverly hills #got #hills #home

I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.


Peter Ustinov


#convinced #diplomats #foreign #future #i