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Speech and having a stammer is obviously a big part of my life. -- Gareth Gates
I had this terrible stammer, so I couldn't really speak properly until I was 16 or 17. -- Carly Simon
This stammer got me a home in Beverly Hills, and I'm not about to screw with it now. -- Bob Newhart
I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer. -- Peter Ustinov
The stammer was a way of telling the world that he was not like others, a way of expressing his singularity. -- Ted Morgan
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
Breathing is fundamental to speech. A stammer is caused by erratic airflow, so if you have a smooth airflow, you have smooth speech. -- Gareth Gates
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
Living with a stammer is difficult. It's a daily uphill struggle with emotional baggage weighing you down. You can't be the person you want to be. -- Gareth Gates
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
Men think they already know me. But as they get closer and closer, they become that 14-year-old again. A lot of men do stammer and blush a little bit. -- Cindy Morgan
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
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
I've stammered all my life, and it's fair to say that my stammer has shaped my life. It's made me make some decisions that I'm sure I wouldn't have if I didn't suffer with this affliction. -- Gareth Gates
I had a stammer through adolescence. Any fun I'd had performing in school plays disappeared and only came back at 18, when the stammer started to go. Then I thought: 'Well, perhaps I can show off now.' -- Charles Dance
No one knows for sure if you can inherit a stammer, and so I worry that my baby might. It's why I want to work on my speech before he arrives. I don't want him to hear me stammer. -- Gareth Gates
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
I still have a stammer that I can control by not opening a sentence with a hard consonant, or by concentrating for a moment, breathing softly down. Growing up, the 'Our Father' was lovely, made for me, the 'Hail Mary' was gorgeous, and 'Glory Be to the Father' was an absolute nightmare. -- Colm Toibin
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
Before all this happened, I always used to see my stammer as being a negative, all my life, but then when I went on 'Pop Idol,' and the first time I saw it on television, it was really, really bad, but also it made me stand out; it made people remember me. So for the first time in my life, it worked to my advantage. -- Gareth Gates
For 'tis sweet to stammer one letter Of the Eternal's language; - on earth it is called Forgiveness! -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer -- Peter Ustinov
Don't compliment me in the middle of an argument. It won't make me stammer or blush, and it just makes you look desperate. -- Suzanne Enoch
Let thy virtue be too high for the familiarity of names, and if thou must speak of it, be not ashamed to stammer about it. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I mean, I'm 6-foot-11, I've got red hair, freckles, I'm a goofy, nerdy-looking guy, I've got a speech impediment-I stutter and stammer all the time-and I'm a Deadhead. -- Bill Walton
A stammering man is never a worthless one. Physiology can tell you why. It is an excess of sensibility to the presence of his fellow creature, that makes him stammer. -- Thomas Carlyle
When we preach Christ crucified, we have no reason to stammer, or stutter, or hesitate, or apologize; there is nothing in the gospel of which we have any cause to be ashamed. -- Charles Spurgeon
Holy Scripture is so exalted that there is no one in the world ... wise enough to understand it so fully that his intellect is not overcome by it. Nevertheless, man can stammer something about it. -- Angela of Foligno

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