Les Dawson Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
If you're beautiful, you're led to believe that you can't also be smart.
-
I would probably do anything with David Mamet. He's so great. I just love his writing.
-
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
-
The constitution is itself the product of the freedom struggle.
-
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.
-
Any serious airline has to look at a worldwide network.
-
Our program for American GIs can be heard at 1630 hours.
-
I have 10 children. I've got my eighth grandchild in the oven with Kimberly. I have all these wonderful kids.
-
We know what's in our Cheerios and in our retirement accounts because the law requires disclosure.
-
But we cannot rely on foreign help indefinitely.
-
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.
-
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.
-
When we do fantasy, we must not lose sight of reality.
-
The fun thing about 'Chicago' is that there's so much dance and, very specifically, Roxie. So you might see a little bit of Roxie on the Sugarland stage. Who knows.
-
You have not really learned a commandment until you have obeyed it. The Church suffers today from Christians who know volumes more than they practice.
-
You can go to Japan, China, all the European, African, Arab, and South American countries, and man, they know me. I can't name a nation where they don't know me.
-
My mother-in-law has so many wrinkles, when she smiles she looks like a Venetian blind.
