Joseph Mawle Quotes

I didn't do plays at school, because I didn't have the confidence. At 14, I was at boarding school in Devon and I suffered from dyslexia quite badly, but they had a very good department there which specialised in it.

Joseph Mawle

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• Dyslexia

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• I have to protect my family and have a life with them that is completely private.

  

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• Leather accents on pieces make it fun and spices up an outfit.

  

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• There are lines that I know are going to get a belly laugh, but after a few shows I get sick of hearing myself say them so I drop them.

  

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• It makes me forget that I'm not going to be a major star and lead female in films whether it was 20 years ago, 10 years ago, five or in the future.

  

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• The technological revolution at home makes it much easier for computers to do our work.

  

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• My favorite subject was either English or History. I had a really awesome high school education.

  

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• I don't have parts of my body that I hate or would like to trade for somebody else's or wish I could surgically adjust into some fantasy version of what they are.

  

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• Now, on nights that I can't sleep, I play video games alone until the morning.

  

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• Interestingly, the actress who, in her own persona, may be gentle, shy, and socially awkward, someone whose hand trembles when pouring a cup of tea for a visiting friend, can convincingly portray an elegant, cruel aristocrat tossing off malicious epigrams in an eighteenth-century chocolate house.

  

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• One of the things women poets have been engaged in - among the other things they've been doing - is revising parts of the poetic self. Re-examining notions of the authority within the poem, and of the poem.

  

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• My world is better. Why would I want to waste my time playing golf? I can get up in the morning and be in this whole other world. I love my life.

  

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• I always stayed fit because I'm a performer, and all of those things help me to perform.

  

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• What is for sale, what is not? If we really think that making your apologies to your wife or reading a bedside story to your child are activities that we can pay a stranger to do, then, without moralising, what has happened to us?

  

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• When I went to the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne to study drama, I felt I'd finally found my place in life.

  

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• The fact that I am Latino is not a secret. There's not much I can do about that. It is what it is. I think people know that my last name ends in a vowel. What can I tell you?

  

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• I'm a hard worker. I'm a people person.

  

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• I've been writing since 1973. I've written nonfiction things of that nature, but I'm probably best known for crime fiction and, to some extent, horror fiction.

  

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• When a child shows up for school, and is not physically and mentally ready to learn, he or she never catches up.

  

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• I always admired virtue - but I could never imitate it.

  

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• I didn't do plays at school, because I didn't have the confidence. At 14, I was at boarding school in Devon and I suffered from dyslexia quite badly, but they had a very good department there which specialised in it.

  

  Joseph Mawle
  • School
  • Confidence
  • Dyslexia