#stutter

He was proud and stubborn, and all the ton looked up to him. Men curried his favor, women flirted like mad. And all the while he'd been terrified every time he'd opened his mouth. ↗

— Julia Quinn

#men

When I first started auditioning I would stutter a lot because I was so terribly frightened. ↗

— Nicholas Brendon

#because #first #frightened #i #lot

I mean, I - it's so funny, I am, you know, I am, you know, a working woman out in the world, but I still live with my parents half the time. I've been sort of taking this very long, stuttering period of moving out. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#been #funny #half #i #i am

I have such bad memories, sitting in the back of a classroom, being told, you know, everybody is going to read a paragraph, and skipping ahead to my paragraph and being mortified and trying to read it enough times so that I wouldn't stutter and stammer, getting called on, even in high school. ↗

— Vince Flynn

#back #bad #being #called #classroom

When I was younger and did a stand-up gig, it would take me two weeks to recover. Sometimes I'd get so panicked that I would stutter. ↗

— Adam Sandler

#get #gig #i #me #panicked

This book would not have been made without the tireless mentoring and rare friendship of Christian Bok, Steven Collis and Nicole Markotic. ↗

— Jordan Scott

#fable #foible #mirror-stage #oughtobiography #stutterance

People only stutter at the beginning of the word. They're not afraid when they get to the end of the word. There's just regret. ↗

— Laurie Anderson

#beginning #end #get #just #only

It's nothing to be ashamed of to have a stutter. ↗