Les Dawson Quotes

My wife sent her photograph to the lonely hearts club. They sent it back, said they weren't that lonely.

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• I love having a big family. I think it's easier, oddly, in some ways, having three children as opposed to one.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Children
  • Family
  • Think

• I am trying so hard to live in the moment and enjoy it while it's happening, because it feels like a moving freight train that I just got on, and I'm trying not to look back and get dizzy!

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Live
  • Enjoy
  • Moment

• I love all kinds of music, and I would write really traditional country songs and songs that were just really out there, that didn't sound country at all, and everything in between.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Country
  • Love

• I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Career
  • Myself
  • Poetry

• Hollywood's all about, 'Let's make this easy: This is what you do, so you go over here in this group, and we're not gonna call you.'

  

  Ted McGinley
  • You
  • Easy
  • Hollywood

• My mother, as a girl, had remembered this woman from Maine, someone who was part of the extended family somehow, and I recall her talking about this great, risk-taking woman. There are the most amazing, heroic stories in everybody's lives.

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
  • Great
  • Family
  • Mother

• Vulnerable young women are being brainwashed by the radical lies of ISIS militants in the Middle East.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Women
  • Lies
  • Young

• My dad moved to London in his early 20s and didn't really go back. So the irony is I've spent lots and lots of time in Ireland, but not with my dad. I've shot films in Belfast, where he's from. And I've shot in Dun Laoghaire. Which is great. And I've shot in Dublin.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Time
  • Great
  • Dad

• When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism or war.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • World
  • Women
  • War

• Singing in Yiddish was a great thrill for me and came about through Joe Papp, the founder of The Public Theater.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Great
  • Me
  • Singing

• Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life.

  

  Lascelles Abercrombie
  • Life
  • Great
  • Poetry

• People may think I'm crazy, but one of the ways I like to wind down my Friday is to get some of our household chores done, whether it's cleaning or doing a big food shop, so the house is all nice for the weekend.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • People
  • Done
  • May

• I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
  • Know
  • Lady
  • Seen

• In a word I was a pioneer, and therefore had to blaze my own trail.

  

  Major Taylor
  • My Own
  • Trail
  • Pioneer

• My work is through my emotions, so everything kind of goes together.

  

  Maiwenn
  • Work
  • Together
  • Emotions

• If you go back to all my albums, they're all confessional.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • You
  • Back
  • Go

• I feel very much satisfied to play in Baltimore.

  

  Vic Willis
  • Play
  • Feel
  • Satisfied

• Health care is a human right, and single-payer health care will deliver quality, affordable care to every Illinoisan.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Health
  • Single
  • Quality

• In New York, just standing still on the sidewalk is a weird feeling. You have this incessant need to do things. Los Angeles is about kicking back, relaxing, your inner child, peace.

  

  Esai Morales
  • Feeling
  • Child
  • New York

• Autumn clouds, vague and obscure; The evening, lonely and chill. I felt the dampness on my garments, But saw no spot, and heard no sound of rain.

  

  Bai Juyi
  • Rain
  • Lonely
  • Clouds

• I don't have small goals; I just have goals, and it's, one, stay healthy; and two, have a very successful career.

  

  Demetrious Johnson
  • Career
  • Small
  • Goals

• The West Coast is so different from the common perceptions of it.

  

  Ann Maxwell
  • Different

• The best way to get children excited about reading is to read to them from the beginning of their lives.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Children
  • Reading
  • Beginning

• My wife sent her photograph to the lonely hearts club. They sent it back, said they weren't that lonely.

  

  Les Dawson
  • Wife
  • Lonely