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 think the American people deserve to have the issues debated, regardless of which side they're on, so that they are fully aware of what their representatives and senators are voting for and voting against.

  

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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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• 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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  • 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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• With time, I've got more used to grass, and I think my style of game helps.

  

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• If I have a really bad cook or a bad manager or bad sous-chef, I previously would have fired them or lost my temper. But now I realize that if I'm so right, then I should be able to communicate it so clearly that they get it.

  

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• According to the Privacy Rights Center, up to 10 million Americans are victims of ID theft each year. They have a right to be notified when their most sensitive health data is stolen.

  

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• You need to be in the position where it is the cost of the fuel that actually matters and not the cost of building the rocket in the first place.

  

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• I think it's a gift to become a star, to become a celebrity.

  

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• My high school English teacher in junior year, Dr. Robert Parsons, assigned us some Poe stories, including 'The Black Cat' and 'The Purloined Letter.' Being an animal person, I had trouble with 'The Black Cat!' I got hooked instead by 'The Purloined Letter,' a Poe story with detective C. Auguste Dupin.

  

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• I have a lot of creative control, so I can decide what I want to wear, what I want my brand to look like, what I want my songs to sound like, so I don't sound like some fake artist that people can't relate to.

  

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• If someone tells me that something can't be done, that makes me more determined to do it.

  

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  • Done

• Once I'd reached the point where I could squirrel away more than 30 digits a minute in memory palaces, I still only sporadically used the techniques to memorize the phone numbers of people I actually wanted to call. I found it was just too simple to punch them into my cell phone.

  

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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