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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My refrigerator is full of kale and greens. I can't imagine something greasy, or eating meat.
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What is cool today is not going to be cool tomorrow, and what wasn't cool yesterday is going to be cool tomorrow.
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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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Applause, it's very nice, of course. But when you're giving, and creating, and then there is the silence of everyone sitting there, listening, waiting, that is great.
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I work out.
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I think if you go from show to show without doing that big PR blitz it's helpful because people can get pretty sick of your face if you're just out there all the time. And keep a low profile, hold in your stomach and be a good sport.
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I look young. I heard this said so often that it became irritating. I once worked as a babysitter for a woman who, the first time we met, said she didn't want somebody in high school. I was 22. Later, I realised that in certain places being female and looking 'young' meant it was more difficult to be taken seriously, so I turned to make-up.
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I told him that I thought it was law logic - an artificial system of reasoning, exclusively used in Courts of justice, but good for nothing anywhere else.
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My mother-in-law has so many wrinkles, when she smiles she looks like a Venetian blind.
