A Quote by Alok Nath

We celebrities have stiff upper-lips. — © Alok Nath
We celebrities have stiff upper-lips.

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People that keep stiff upper lips find that it's hard to smile.
People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.
Geez, if I could get through to you, kiddo, that depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling. Reduction, see? Of all feeling. People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.
The lips on my upper right bicep are my girlfriend's lips. She has the most amazing lips, and I wanted to carry them around with me everywhere I go, considering I can't carry her lips physically with me. So I decided to place them in a discreet location, such as the inside part of my bicep.
The working classes in England were always sentimental, and the Irish and Scots and Welsh. The upper-class English are the stiff-upper-lipped ones. And the middle class. They're the ones who are crippled emotionally because they can't move up, and they're desperate not to move down.
Keep a stiff upper chin.
And though hard be the task, keep a stiff upper lip.
And though hard be the task, 'Keep a stiff upper lip'.
Christianity is in no way a stoic faith. It fundamentally rejects the "stiff upper lip" school of thought.
It's a very valuable function and requirement that you're performing, so have a great day and keep a stiff upper lip.
Only yield when you must, never "give up the ship," but fight on to the last "with a stiff upper lip!
I'm not one to complain about illness. I suppose I have a bit of a stiff upper lip. I just tend to get on with things.
And I definitely do that very British thing of, take things with a pinch of salt, stiff upper lip, you know what I mean?
Lips move; lips touch; lips signal. Lips are on the outside for show, and on the most secret inside of your mouth. Lips frame words that lie. Lips frame a hole that wants to be filled.
And so I was very grateful that I didn't do the British stiff upper lip, but I went straight to a therapist. And she was wonderful and helpful, and I went for about two years.
I was brought up in a fairly emotionally repressed kind of society in Northeast England where one didn't express emotions and was expected to keep a stiff upper lip.
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