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

• School
• Confidence
• Dyslexia

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• 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

• One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Living
  • Memory
  • Loss

• 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

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

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Work
  • Home
  • Revolution

• My marks were always bad, and I was a bad influence on other children, so they would explain to my mother that they could retain me only by being partial towards me, and so I should offer to leave the school myself. I would barely get 40-50% and was also extremely naughty.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Children
  • School
  • Bad

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

  

  Ian Harding
  • School
  • History
  • High

• 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.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Hate
  • Wish
  • Body

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

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Alone
  • Morning
  • Sleep

• Sleeping is forbidden at the age of 22. It's all work and no play.

  

  Usher
  • Work
  • Age
  • Play

• 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

• The watchdog's voice that bayed the whispering wind,And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Mind
  • Wind

• 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

• The designers, photographers and models I work with, they are really hard-working people who are devoting their lives to fashion. They're kind of like nuns of fashion.

  

  Alber Elbaz
  • People
  • Work
  • Fashion

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

  

  Sting The Police
  • Help

• The Sandinista revolution was without any question a popular insurrection.

  

  Bianca Jagger
  • Question
  • Revolution
  • Popular

• 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

• Peter Lucas and I live in Durham but spend a great of time in North Wales, where we have a cottage in the mountains, and in Vermont, USA, with my sister - who is a children's writer married to a poet.

  

  Anne Stevenson
  • Time
  • Great
  • Live

• They do put my films on TV from time to time. I don't go out of my way to watch them. But I'm now made to tape them for my daughter so that when she's old enough she can say, 'Hey, that's Daddy.'

  

  Mark Lester
  • Time
  • Daughter
  • Films

• We can't care for something we don't understand. This is the purpose of why we explore and why we voyage.

  

  Nainoa Thompson
  • Why
  • Purpose
  • Care

• 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