Les Dawson Quotes
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I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.
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I can sing in front of people. I can go on a TV show, live, and not feel like I'm going to throw up.
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When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.
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When we talk about change, we, the business leaders, have to implement it. We have to look at what we're not doing and what we should be doing.
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Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison.
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A woman can walk miles without making one single step forward. As a child born in a harem, I instinctively knew that to live is to open closed doors. To live is to look outside. To live is to step out. Life is trespassing.
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If you're beautiful, you're led to believe that you can't also be smart.
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I would probably do anything with David Mamet. He's so great. I just love his writing.
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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
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The constitution is itself the product of the freedom struggle.
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I really wanted to do things that weren't comic. It felt like finding people who can see this other side to me.
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Down the mine I dreamed of cricket; I bowled imaginery balls in the dark; I sent the stumps spinning and heard them rattling in the tunnels. No mishap was going to stop me from bowling in the real game, especially this one.
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Any serious airline has to look at a worldwide network.
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Our program for American GIs can be heard at 1630 hours.
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I have 10 children. I've got my eighth grandchild in the oven with Kimberly. I have all these wonderful kids.
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We know what's in our Cheerios and in our retirement accounts because the law requires disclosure.
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But we cannot rely on foreign help indefinitely.
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I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of World War I British poetry and having seen a lot of post-World War II films. I thought the romantic presentations of war influenced my joining and my presentation of war to my younger siblings.
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I describe myself as an environmentalist not because I'm marching in the street with placards but because I like to be in the woods by myself.
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Dad and mom would have preferred that I be a doctor, a lawyer, a scientist, or a great humanitarian.
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I was surprised how little I knew about the significant contributions to aviation that had happened right there in Hampton, Virginia.
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I had a very difficult relationship with my father, which ended up okay, but there were many difficult years.
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For a variety of reasons, I have always felt myself an outsider. I don't know how to classify myself in economics. I am a loner. I do not like groupthink, which, if anything, has become more important in economics. In addition, a lot of the values I hold are not the mainstream values in the profession.
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My mother-in-law has so many wrinkles, when she smiles she looks like a Venetian blind.
