Les Dawson Quotes
I've just had some bad news. Tomorrow is the mother in law's funeral. And she's cancelled it.
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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Never having alone time is real tough on people.
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I think the Hajj tends to reflect the state of the Ummah. That's one of the things about the Hajj is that you get to see the Ummah. It's a microcosm of the Ummah's condition.
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Because it is my second season with the team, no time has been wasted in getting to know the people I'm working with. I am aware of what the team is capable of and how the organisation works, and they are familiar with what makes me tick.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
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I'm not a cheater, but if I win Olympic gold and people are looking at me and saying I am a cheat because I've won, it's hugely disrespectful given the hard work I've put in.
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I don't really care that much about eating. But I like impressing people with how good a cook I am. So I will cook. I'm an excellent cook. Not many people know that about me.
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You don't get to the highest levels of the sport without having the basics in order.
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I'm finding myself really angry over spending and the deficit. I'm finding myself really angry over what's happening in the Middle East, the decision to stay in Afghanistan indefinitely. I'm angry about cap and trade. And I've been on record for a long time on the failed war on drugs.
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I guess I am sometimes over the top on stage, but then, that is my personality. I'm over the top in real life, too.
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People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
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I never watch MTV. I don't have time to watch TV. And when I do, I'm watching the Discovery Channel. 'Deadliest Catch: Crab Fishing in Alaska,' that's my show.
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We always hear from newspapers that while people understand the environmental challenge, they are unwilling to stomach the solutions. The trouble is, we only ever hear about the solutions from the media, and for whatever reason, they are almost always caricatured beyond recognition. If there's no appetite for green, it's not surprising.
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I have a tendency as an actress in general to ground my characters. Even when doing outlandish characters, that's my instinct.
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Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer.
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My senior thesis was a documentary. By the time I graduated from college, I thought I was going to make films, and my interest in acting was there but kind of confused.
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My mom was dying for me to write a book, she was my biggest advocate.
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When I audition, I understand what it takes and the insecurities that come with it. If I do anything, I put actors at ease. I used to tell directors who weren't actors, the best thing they could do was take an acting class for a couple of months. Just to understand.
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I have autoimmune disease, thyroid problems, and I've been diagnosed pre-diabetic.
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The DNA of 'Deadpool' shouldn't change.
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As long as you put me out on the court, I was gonna play hard.
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I used to think that the great thing about sculpture was that, like Stonehenge, it was something that stood against time in an adamantine way, and was an absolute mass in space. Now I try to use the language of architecture to redescribe the body as a place.
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I've just had some bad news. Tomorrow is the mother in law's funeral. And she's cancelled it.
