A Quote by Mel Giedroyc

Nobody likes a presenter melting in a self-indulgent puddle of tears.

Mel Giedroyc

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Mel Giedroyc
English - Entertainer
Born: June 5, 1968

I bristle at the implication that only with the help of a Big Six editor does a novel lose its self-indulgent aspects. Before the advent of self-publishing, there were plenty of self-indulgent novels on the shelves.

Jennifer Armintrout

Canadians and Americans may look alike, but the contents of their heads are quite different. Americans experience themselves, individually, as small toads in the biggest and most powerful puddle in the world. Their sense of power comes from identifying with the puddle. Canadians as individuals may have more power within the puddle, since there are fewer toads in it; it's the puddle that's seen as powerless.

Margaret Atwood

I have a horror of being self-indulgent and wasting time, and there is that risk in doing this kind of work. Are you totally deluded in sitting down at a desk every day and trying to write something? Is it self-indulgent, or might it possibly lead to something worthwhile? At a certain point I decided to keep on because I felt like the work was getting better, and I was taking great pleasure in that.

Ben Fountain

Everybody likes to get as much power as circumstances allow, and nobody will vote for a self-denying ordinance.

Lord Acton

Fearful of sentimentality, I disown my tears and melting heart.

Mason Cooley

I think everybody likes a person that stands up for themselves. Nobody likes a punk or a coward.

Ice Cube

People think it's suspect and self-indulgent to make art, and I don't think that's true. Some people think you should be busy making something that you can sell in the marketplace, and if nobody wants to buy it, it must be crap. And that's not true.

Dana Spiotta

It seems like the first law of Nature is that everybody likes to receive things, but nobody likes to feel grateful.

Zora Neale Hurston

Never forget that the subject is as important as your feeling; the mud puddle itself is as important as your pleasure in looking at it or splashing through it. Never let the mud puddle get lost in the poetry-because, in many ways, the mud puddle is the poetry.

Valerie Worth

I think, oddly, that the world of the amateur is quite self-contained, and it depends on "likes" from other amateurs to perpetuate itself. Of course an awful lot of my colleagues are involved with Instagram - they get likes and dislikes, maybe just likes, I don't know - but I think that it's far less self-contained, the world I work in. It goes off in different directions, and is dependent on responses different from a tick or a like or whatever.

Stuart Franklin

Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.

Billy Graham

I believe tears are holy, because they show us that the ice of our heart is melting.

Barbara De Angelis

It doesn't annoy me but I think of myself as a presenter who is gay, rather than a gay presenter. It's a subtle distinction, but that's how I view it.