{"author":"Hugh Laurie","author_id":"Hugh+Laurie","total_quotes":19,"quotes":[{"text":"It's a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you're ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There's almost no such thing as ready. There's only now. And you may as well do it now. I mean, I say that confidently as if I'm about to go bungee jumping or something--I'm not. I'm not a crazed risk taker. But I do think that, generally speaking, now is as good a time as any.","author":"Hugh Laurie","tags":["activity","carpe-diem","patience","proactivity","timing","waiting"],"id":1676,"author_id":"Hugh+Laurie"},{"text":"I had too many things to say, and too small a brain to sort them out with.","author":"Hugh Laurie","tags":["brain","things"],"id":5679,"author_id":"Hugh+Laurie"},{"text":"It's a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you're ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now. And you may as well as do it now. Generally speaking, now is as good a time as any.","author":"Hugh Laurie","tags":["inspirational-life","life","readiness","start-up"],"id":19649,"author_id":"Hugh+Laurie"},{"text":"Some people are drawn naturally - there are natural guitarists, and there are natural piano players, and I think guitar implies travel, a sort of footloose gypsy existence. You grab your bag and you go to the next town.","author":"Hugh Laurie","tags":["guitar","people","think "],"id":47558,"author_id":"Hugh+Laurie"},{"text":"I never was someone who was at ease with happiness.","author":"Hugh Laurie","tags":["never","someone","ease "],"id":48285,"author_id":"Hugh+Laurie"},{"text":"I would cling to unhappiness because it was a known, familiar state. When I was happier, it was because I knew I was on my way back to misery. I've never been convinced that happiness is the object of the game. I'm wary of happiness.","author":"Hugh Laurie","tags":["happiness","misery"],"id":56430,"author_id":"Hugh+Laurie"},{"text":"I have my moments. Ever since I was a boy, I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. Too often I embrace introspection and self-doubt. I wish I could embrace the good things.","author":"Hugh Laurie","tags":["good","moments","good things "],"id":95494,"author_id":"Hugh+Laurie"},{"text":"I think my father gave me a great reverence for medical science. He was about as opposite to the personality of House as one could imagine. He was polite and easygoing, and would have gone to great lengths to make his patients feel attended to and heard and sympathized with.","author":"Hugh Laurie","tags":["father","science","great "],"id":108645,"author_id":"Hugh+Laurie"},{"text":"I started to think of friends I could lean on for some help, but, as always happened when I attempted this kind of social audit, I realised that far too many of them were abroad, dead, married to people who disapproved of me, or weren't really my friends, now that I came to think of it.","author":"Hugh Laurie","tags":["friends","humor"],"id":121172,"author_id":"Hugh+Laurie"},{"text":"Normally, words are sentfrom the brain towards the mouth, and somewhere along the line you take a moment to checkthem, see that they are actually the ones you ordered and that they’re nicely wrapped, beforeyou bundle them on their way towards your palate and out into the fresh air.But when you’re caught up in the flow of things, the checking part of your mind can falldown on the job.","author":"Hugh Laurie","tags":["words"],"id":136989,"author_id":"Hugh+Laurie"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":19,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}