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Les Dawson Quotes

The way prices are rising, the good old days are last week.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: english
Birth: February 2, 1931 - June 10, 1993

Topics

Good Good Old Days Week Way Rising

Parliament is supposed to be serious. It's not a place for jingoistic cheering.

Place Serious Parliament Supposed

I went for endless auditions for tiny parts in obscure plays, and never got one job until I was in 'Four Weddings'.

Anna Chancellor

Job Never Obscure Got Four Tiny

In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don't really need to explain very much at all - you just say he's a spy and he's a little bit theatrical and overblown and smug and he's not very good at his job.

Good Job You Say Need Explain

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

Life Wise Opinions Person False

You would get some fantastic syntactical phenomena. You would hear people talking in Barbados in the exact melody as a minor character in Shakespeare. Because here you have a thing that was not immured and preserved and mummified, but a voluble language, very active, very swift, very sharp.

Character People Language Talking

I learned so much about being an actor by being a director. More than I ever thought I would.

Thought Actor More Director Being

A boycott is, inherently, a blunt instrument. It is an imperfect weapon, a carpet bomb, when all involved would prefer a surgical strike.

Strike Carpet Involved Blunt Weapon

Doing graphic novels is cool! It's fun! You get to write something, and then see it visually page by page, panel by panel, working with the artist, you get to see it fleshed out.

Anthony Bourdain

Fun Cool Doing You Artist Page

Sure, I miss some things about the stage. The thing I like is the immediacy. But then I complain, 'I gotta do the same part for six months.'

Same Stage Complain Things Sure Six

The best way to supervise your men is from their reports that they make out.

Thomas J. Watson

Best Men Way Out Reports Your

Be able to defend your arguments in a rational way. Otherwise, all you have is an opinion.

Marilyn vos Savant

Opinion You Way Defend Rational

The average adult laughs 15 times a day; the average child, more than 400 times.

Day Child More Average Adult Than

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