Les Dawson Quotes
The mother-in-law had an accident at work. A hot rivet dropped down her drawers and she fell off the oil rig.
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Incendiary capitalism is carrying its out evil works more dangerously than ever, and is doing so in the increasingly dangerous neighborhood of the powder kegs that are the great European military powers.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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The high point was that the people are really nice - despite the crazy politics - and I loved being there. The hardest part was knowing some of the things I was probably going to write about Texas would make those nice people very unhappy.
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My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.
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There are young idealists all around the world falling in love with the Yankees now and realists who are gravitating to the Red Sox. I think the universe is on its head.
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Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
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I'm moved by people who see the world differently than others. People who see the world with a longing for its poetry often can be broken people.
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Morrissey wrote a really gorgeous song for me. I'm crazy for that man. And he thinks I'm hip!
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Genius always finds itself a century too early.
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Whenever you're in a relationship, you have that favorite song that reminds you of when you first got together or when you first kissed, and then every time you hear that song, it reminds you of that person.
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I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.
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I have a fascination with Flight 93. My emotions are mixed: awe, gratitude, fear, heartache, pride - even, in some ways, guilt.
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I didn't know what it was not to work hard as I grew up.
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I'm a food addict, that's my downfall.
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I always consider Shakespeare like a huge room. I mean, you open the door, and you can go anywhere.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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I had studied Irish history. I had read speeches from the dock. I had tried to fuse the vivid past of my nation with the lost spaces of my childhood. I had learned the battles, the ballads, the defeats. It never occurred to me that eventually the power and insistence of a national tradition would offer me only a new way of not belonging.
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Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing.
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I work with a lot of scientists, and one of the frustrating things they find is that all this fascinating stuff is being done which doesn't find its way into science fiction. They say look at the science fact pages - they're so much more imaginative than science fiction.
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I always feel like the art's there and I just see it, so it's not really a lot of work.
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It's what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That's all and that's the hardest thing.
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A sculptor is supposed to be a dull dog anyway, so why should he not break out in colour sometimes, and in my case I'd as soon be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.
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I don't know what to do if I am not inspiring some sort of false fascination.
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The mother-in-law had an accident at work. A hot rivet dropped down her drawers and she fell off the oil rig.
