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Stewart Lee Quotes

English - Comedian | April 5, 1968 -

I'm very grateful to my adoptive family. My mother sorted my life out.

Life Family Mother Grateful My Life

I suppose we are what we are, and we use the evidence to confirm what we believe.

Believe Evidence Confirm Use Suppose

I went to a hypnotist to learn how not to use drinking a pint before you go on as a way of giving you the confidence to just fly at it, irrespective of the fear. That's not a long-term strategy, when you do as many gigs as I do.

Fear Confidence Fly Learn Strategy

Now I've got kids, you wouldn't want them to suffer because of a perception of you. I try to be very careful where I do things and make sure I know why I've done them. I wouldn't want them to be stigmatized.

Perception You Know Done Want Why

I thought it would be a funny concept to publish a book about stand-up comedy with Faber, the poetry publisher, and to apply to stand-up the same sort of weight of annotation that you would to a classic work of literature, an epic poem. I thought that would be funny.

Work Funny Poetry Book Thought You

When I started on the London circuit in 1989, nationwide there were about 150 to 200 people that were what you could call alternative comedians - that weren't club comics. Now, last year when the Laughing Horse chain of clubs held a new acts competition, a thousand people entered. So, there are 800 people more.

Competition People Horse Year You

I'm forever reading on the Internet that I apparently cultivate this audience and never go badly.

Reading Internet Go Never Audience

I'd quite like to write a book about comics, actually. But trying to write about comics as literature, which I don't think anyone's really done before. Sometimes they're more like fan books, and I'd quite like to write one about the Marvel universe over the last 50 years. It's an unprecedented achievement to create that length of continuity.

Achievement Book Think Universe Done

If I could travel through time, I wouldn't go back and change anything in my life, because I'm delighted with the way it's turned out.

Life Change Time Travel My Life Go

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