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.

  

  Dan Coats
  • People
  • American
  • Voting

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

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Life
  • Family
  • Protect

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

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Leather

• 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.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Myself
  • Sick
  • Laugh

• 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.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Future
  • Me
  • Star

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

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Alone
  • Morning
  • Sleep

• 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.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • May
  • House
  • Friend

• 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.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Women
  • Doing
  • Self

• 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.

  

  Janet Evanovich
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• 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?

  

  Arlie Russell Hochschild
  • Reading
  • Wife

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

  

  Bobby Schilling
  • People

• 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.

  

  David Chang
  • Bad
  • Lost

• 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.

  

  Luis Gutierrez
  • Up
  • Health

• 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.

  

  Elon Musk

• Economic systems rise and fall just like empires. That's the kind of perspective we need to take if we hope to prosper for centuries rather than for the next quarter.

  

  Annalee Newitz
  • Hope
  • Fall
  • Perspective

• You just have to believe in yourself when you've got something, and just keep pounding on the door, because if you pound long enough, somebody is going to open it.

  

  Cynthia Weil
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Door

• I realized I'm a very, very white dancer.

  

  Thomas Rhett

• We have to be active about kindness and about peace. I've always fantasized that it would be great if there was a Department of Peace.

  

  Dave Matthews Dave Matthews Band
  • Great
  • Peace
  • Kindness

• 'Hairspray' has never been irrelevant, which is, in some ways, heartbreaking.

  

  Dove Cameron

• To go from being an unpopular, chubby little kid who was chasing girls and couldn't seem to catch them, to being chased after and making sure I ran slow enough that I did get caught, it was 180 degree turn. It was being given the keys to the candy store.

  

  Paul Stanley Kiss
  • Girls
  • Chubby
  • Candy Store

• All through my life, I was hated on. When I was in middle school, they used to write in my rhyme book, 'You suck' or 'This sucks.'

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Life
  • School
  • Book

• I'm staggered by the question of what it's like to be a multimilionaire. I always have to remind myself that I am.

  

  Bruce Willis
  • Question

• We were taking some photos one day in front of one of these old antebellum homes, and one of us said the word. And we all kind of stopped and said, 'That could be a name!' ... It just feels kind of country and nostalgic.

  

  Dave Haywood Lady Antebellum
  • Country

• 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