Les Dawson Quotes

I've just had some bad news. Tomorrow is the mother in law's funeral. And she's cancelled it.

Les Dawson

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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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• 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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• 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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• I was with this girl the other night and from the way she was responding to my skillful caresses, you would have sworn that she was conscious from the top of her head to the tag on her toes.

  

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• Life must continue, even with the security situation so bad, because I have ambitions. I love this sport too much.

  

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• I've just had some bad news. Tomorrow is the mother in law's funeral. And she's cancelled it.

  

  Les Dawson
  • She
  • Bad
  • Mother