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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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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My No. 1 is Johnny Depp, ever since 'Cry Baby.' He had my heart.
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If you cannot judge a book by its cover, surely we should not judge an author by one book alone?
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My 20s were all about feeling desperate. Desperate to find a new boyfriend. Desperate to get the perfect job. Desperate to get rid of this terrible relationship with this bad new boyfriend.
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My dad had a stroke. It's one of those life-changing events. It was right around the time I was turning 40. We were doing 'L.A. Law,' and I got this call that my dad was in Rome and had had a stroke. I want to stress that it wasn't a huge stroke, but it was enough to provide a serious wake-up call.
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On a mild day in January 2011, Republicans in the House voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act. It was the first of more than 80 attempts to dismantle the landmark law.
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My mother-in-law has so many wrinkles, when she smiles she looks like a Venetian blind.
