Lesley Douglas quote: "This is a strong line-up of talent to bring to the Granite City. It reflects the network's diversity in terms of musical coverage, and you can be assured that these artists are at the very top of their profession. We are extremely grateful for our collaboration with Aberdeen City Council who have ensured that this week of on and off-air activity from BBC Radio 2 is going to be held in Scotland for the first time."

Saturdays on Radio 2 will be real appointment listening with Jonathan Ross in the morning, comedy fo...
LESLEY DOUGLAS

We are extremely grateful for our collaboration with Aberdeen City Council who have ensured that thi...
LESLEY DOUGLAS

With learning lines, before I had Alfie, I'd put it off and think, 'Oh, I'll just have a...
LESLEY MANVILLE

I'm very lucky because I don't half get some juicy jobs. But I can't tell you the number...
LESLEY MANVILLE

That was when I realised that music is the most profound, magical form of communication there is.
LESLEY GARRETT

I inherited my weight problem from my mum. She was always on diets. If there was a box of chocolates...
LESLEY NICOL

As far as I'm concerned, collaboration is the essence of life. It's wonderful to be able to ...
LESLEY GORE

Corinne Bailey Rae I listen to a lot, and I'll hear Desert Island Discs and quickly write down t...
LESLEY MANVILLE

In 1990, I was in 'The Three Sisters' at the Royal Court and won the Clarence Derwent award ...
LESLEY MANVILLE

I took a cookery course. On the examination, I had to cook a cheese omelet with peas and an egg cust...
LESLEY NICOL

The first meal my husband ever made me was a chicken curry. I have never tasted anything so deliciou...
LESLEY NICOL

One of the Sunday newspapers asked me to make my favorite dish, and they photographed me holding it ...
LESLEY NICOL

There are two sorts of romantics: those who love, and those who love the adventure of loving
LESLEY BLANCH

What about the whiskey?" Jack said as they ran. "Won't it keep them out?"
The Green Maidens don...
LESLEY LIVINGSTON

What did the Faerie that attacked you look like?"
"Super creepy. Ripped jeans, weird tattoos, b...
LESLEY LIVINGSTON

It worries me that young singers think you can shortcut the training and go straight to fame and for...
LESLEY GARRETT

Opera is credible drama now, and it costs less than going to a football match. What have you got to ...
LESLEY GARRETT

Nobody inspired me more than Julie Andrews, who is a classically trained soprano herself.
LESLEY GARRETT

I did an O-level in domestic science when I was at school, but on the day of the practical exam, it ...
LESLEY NICOL

I do a lot of vocal hygiene.
LESLEY GARRETT

There is no perfect solution to depression, nor should there be. And odd as this may sound we should...
LESLEY HAZELTON

I was discouraged that this topic got more attention than Eileen Collins, the female commander who l...
LESLEY VISSER

It gets easier as you get older because life deals its particular hand, and our experiences get deep...
LESLEY MANVILLE

When I gave birth to my son, something happened. It is a huge thing for a woman: a whole set of emot...
LESLEY MANVILLE

For Kitty Gilbert in 'Topsy-Turvy,' I had to get to the point where I could improvise in the...
LESLEY MANVILLE

I think that distributors and marketing companies realise that there are a huge number of women over...
LESLEY MANVILLE

When I make films, I work with Mike Leigh, who's the most prolific director in England.
LESLEY MANVILLE

I had two starts, really. The first was going to the Italia Conti stage school, aged 15. I'd gon...
LESLEY MANVILLE

Suffering, once accepted, loses its edge, for the terror of it lessens, and what remains is generall...
LESLEY HAZELTON

The best of my education has come from the public library... my tuition fee is a bus fare and once i...
LESLEY CONGER

I want to have a scene with Maggie Smith.
LESLEY NICOL

The first role I played was Madame Ranevsky in 'The Cherry Orchard.'
LESLEY NICOL

I'm a big fan of Edouard Vuillard, so I'd like anything by him - particularly a painting cal...
LESLEY MANVILLE

Life, it is not simple like a garden, where flowers are always flowers and weeds are always weeds.
LESLEY KAGEN

...things can happen when you least expect them so you always gotta be prepared. And pay attention t...
LESLEY KAGEN

...things happen when you least expect them. Things that can change your whole life.
LESLEY KAGEN

Seeing that made me understand how profound the drama of opera was and how music theatre is the most...
LESLEY GARRETT

Don't ever say that, Fennrys," she said. "I don't ever want to hear you say that you don't de...
LESLEY LIVINGSTON

The musical heritage of Yorkshire is deep and wide.
LESLEY GARRETT

I've been to the White House and had Hilary Clinton push through the crowd to come and meet me. ...
LESLEY NICOL

I still sing, but completely for my own pleasure. I play a nightclub singer in 'Sparkle,' bu...
LESLEY MANVILLE

You've got to take responsibility for your own actions. We all know people who reach rock bottom...
LESLEY MANVILLE

I think the record industry, by and large what's left of it, is still totally homophobic. I thin...
LESLEY GORE

We underestimate just how distressing the menopausal side effects of treatment are, and women acknow...
LESLEY FALLOWFIELD

The take-home message is that unless we find some way of helping women with breast cancer deal effec...
LESLEY FALLOWFIELD

We underestimate just how distressing the menopausal side effects of treatment are, and women acknow...
LESLEY FALLOWFIELD

The take-home message is that unless we find some way of helping women with breast cancer deal effec...
LESLEY FALLOWFIELD

nobody ever died of a hot flush.
LESLEY FALLOWFIELD

I had left school at 16, gone to stage school - and, until I was 22, I hadn't really played anyo...
LESLEY MANVILLE

The corps doesn't make it easy. The regulations aren't easy to understand.
LESLEY BLACKNER

It is unusual to pair freshman together. They have been very steady throughout the entire season.
LESLEY SHEEHAN

Actually, the funny thing is, after all these years, I've got all these new songs to learn for t...
LESLEY GORE

Gina's opponent played really well. It wasn't really a case of Gina playing any worse; it was just t...
LESLEY SHEEHAN

Oh, there's so much ego with men; in their head, they can't possibly think about Tesco's...
LESLEY MANVILLE

Yes. And also, if it's okay by you, I'd like to shut up now... Or possibly just go somewhere and swa...
LESLEY LIVINGSTON

You know the life you have committed yourself to often ends in death.

All life does.
LESLEY LIVINGSTON

The corps is not user-friendly. They're secretive. They're very bureaucratic.
LESLEY BLACKNER

The last thing we want to do is bring a bunch of families in, and they feel unwelcome, and they're o...
LESLEY SMITH

I performed in Sydney some years ago for the Sydney Festival and I am just so pleased to be returnin...
LESLEY GARRETT

Kelley. Your name is Kelley, isn't it?" He didn't wait for her confirmation. "Yes. Well. Tell me...t...
LESLEY LIVINGSTON

Personally, ... I would give a Nobel prize to the doctor who could eliminate hot flushes. It really ...
LESLEY FALLOWFIELD

The best of my education has come from the public library... my tuition fee is a bus fare and once i...
LESLEY CONGER

Every act of dishonesty has at least two victims: the one we think of as the victim, and the perpetr...
LESLEY CONGER

People have preconceptions about women of a certain age.
LESLEY NICOL

I had this exceptional classical music voice. If I'd followed a true path for my talent, I would...
LESLEY MANVILLE

I have to say that when I first started singing, I didn't think it was a very noble profession. ...
LESLEY GORE

I never imagined I'd go into acting, but I always loved drama, and when I was 16, I discovered t...
LESLEY NICOL

Well. I think it's safe to say that, in my absence, the power grabbing and backstabbing and politica...
LESLEY LIVINGSTON

We always need volunteers. We've been so blessed with so many wonderful volunteers this year.
LESLEY PECKHAM

I worked with Carl Perkins on a number of shows. Live shows. He just showed up and played. He just k...
LESLEY GORE

The short story and the truth is that I was taking vocal lessons here in New York... One day, instea...
LESLEY GORE

The Janus Guard will also be out that night,” he said, one hand reaching out to squeeze her should...
LESLEY LIVINGSTON

I'm very pro presenting the best music I can to the widest audience possible.
LESLEY GARRETT

I saw The Sound of Music when I was 10 and thought that it was the most beautiful singing I had ever...
LESLEY GARRETT

That would cost precious seconds because those calls would then be routed to Dane County because we ...
LESLEY SILLAMAN

This oath is the oath we all swear. Not to a god, or a master, or to the Ludu Achillea...but to our ...
LESLEY LIVINGSTON

I would just like to say that opera is no longer about fat people in breastplates shattering wine gl...
LESLEY GARRETT

Coming eyeball to eyeball with a hummingbird on my terrace is as exciting to me as any celebrity I&#...
LESLEY NICOL

I like to personalise my dressing room, have a cover for the bed and, if it is a long run, a few cus...
LESLEY MANVILLE

'Sweeney Todd' is my favorite Sondheim musical.
LESLEY NICOL

I think it's a fading image,
LESLEY STAHL

Mirror, mirror, on the wall. Who is the fairest of them all?

I whisper it first then I sa...
LESLEY HAUGE

You can't do anything about the past, it's done and can't be mended. But the future is different, if...
LESLEY PEARSE

Digital photography used to be male-dominated; all images ended up in cameras and on hard drives, an...
LARRY LESLEY

Well, not exactly kind. More... irritating. But he did help me out though, when my boyfriend got a b...
LESLEY ASH

Power elites weren't that interested until the little people started exercising their rights under i...
LESLEY BLACKNER

The system is gamed to give the developer what he wants. It's ridiculous.
LESLEY BLACKNER

The most important role is for people who know what it's like on the ground. Congress intended for t...
LESLEY BLACKNER

A year ago, average management fees were falling, but this turned around in 2005 with average manage...
LESLEY HARVEY

I love being blown away by something bigger than myself, like a ship on a stormy sea, and Peter Grim...
LESLEY GARRETT

Whichever route they choose as long as they're doing it seriously and looking after their voices and...
LESLEY GARRETT

And woven into the fabric of this harsh existence was music.
LESLEY GARRETT

Just walking along Shaftesbury Avenue gave me such a buzz - it still does - and communicating with a...
LESLEY GARRETT

So between my mother playing two-part inventions by Bach on the piano and my dad singing Ivor Novell...
LESLEY GARRETT

In a game like that, a TV game against ODU, I think your adrenaline will help you out a lot as far a...
LESLEY DICKINSON

I tried to commit suicide by sticking my head in the oven, but there was a cake in it.
LESLEY BOONE

They are now back up to 98 index points.
LESLEY HARVEY

The large managers have for some time now been unanimously confident with their business environment...
LESLEY HARVEY

(The mayor) saw a need to match people's individual skills with the events, and we do that, but a vo...
LESLEY PECKHAM

I think every year it just gets better and better. It's a four-day event where people can come and e...
LESLEY HINDS

I think we're going to have a great night here.
LESLEY HINDS

I think every year it just gets better and better.
LESLEY HINDS

She's such a competitor. (Friday), she lost the first set and I knew that she'd come back. She won t...
LESLEY SHEEHAN

It was great doubles and could have gone either way. It's tough to lose the doubles, because you alw...
LESLEY SHEEHAN

It will be nice to play on a consistent surface in warm weather, as opposed to here. We are going to...
LESLEY SHEEHAN

We face UNH and Columbia this weekend, and we usually play well against both teams. I am very confid...
LESLEY SHEEHAN

I'm not worried about the rest of the season. We have a very deep team in the America East. We will ...
LESLEY SHEEHAN

One challenge you have when facing a ranked team is how you prepare. It is difficult to prepare for ...
LESLEY SHEEHAN

We played against the 18th-ranked team out of maybe 350 Division I programs, so we're talking maybe ...
LESLEY SHEEHAN

Erin played great tennis out there. She had a good chance to take a game or two.
LESLEY SHEEHAN

We competed the best we could out there. They were stronger than we were on Saturday.
LESLEY SHEEHAN

The cell phone towers and the boundaries of the cities are not exact.
LESLEY SILLAMAN

She doesn't like negative pieces, but she also doesn't control their campaigns.
LESLEY SILLAMAN

It takes fire -- they have to have that heat to pop open and grow again.
LESLEY SMITH

This is the first time we've burned these units. And it might be the first time they were burned sin...
LESLEY SMITH

Well, we are. I'd like to know when you're going to answer the questions?
LESLEY STAHL

Do you think this is in the back of the Republicans' minds now that it happened to Jim Wright, 'Oh o...
LESLEY STAHL

I thought administration was the running of the office. The Xerox machine. Paying bills,
LESLEY STAHL

They pulled the plug on you, what you wanted to say.
LESLEY STAHL

What if you had said, 'OK, I'll have the party, but no alcohol?'
LESLEY STAHL

I'll bet, ... But you know, I look from the outside at this marriage and I say, 'Jane Fonda did it a...
LESLEY STAHL

I don't know of anybody's political bias at CBS News. We try very hard to get any opinion that we ha...
LESLEY STAHL

When I started, the press credentials said 'No women or children in the press box,' ... There are a...
LESLEY VISSER

There are hundreds of good men in this business and hundreds of good women and there are some who ar...
LESLEY VISSER

Really you just gotta keep chugging along and keep a positive attitude and get through all the probl...
LESLEY GORE

Gemini....You revere scientists and shamans alike,
providing them with what they need to do th...
LESLEY THOMAS

It hasn't been as bad as we feared. But bills are still higher. It's still a serious situation.
ROBERT LESLEY

Wisdom comes through suffering or old age.
LESLEY PEARSE

My poor cooking is legendary among my friends.
LESLEY NICOL

I came from the musical stage. My first show was '110 In The Shade.' I started as a ballet d...
LESLEY ANN WARREN

I'm a gigantic musical film fan.
LESLEY ANN WARREN

Human beings have to create hope. They have to. You have to have something you hold onto as being a ...
LESLEY ANN WARREN

I've been a character actress right from the beginning. I was no more like 'Cinderella' ...
LESLEY ANN WARREN

The truth is, I would do anything for Alan Rudolph. If he asked me to stand on my head and spit wood...
LESLEY ANN WARREN

I was terrified, terrified in 'Songwriter,' because there I was, New York Jewish girl, singi...
LESLEY ANN WARREN

I have come far, but not far enough. It is still a man's world.
LESLEY ANN WARREN

You have to be really willing to embrace life and life's turns, and play that for your audience,...
LESLEY ANN WARREN

I know that some people work differently, but I have to work from the inside out. It doesn't mat...
LESLEY ANN WARREN

Good work is good work wherever it is.
LESLEY ANN WARREN

Trust your own instincts, go inside, follow your heart. Right from the start. go ahead and stand up ...
LESLEY ANN WARREN

The curtains would open and it would be just her standing in some ludicrous pose, like Aphrodite.
LESLEY-ANNE DOWN

Put work into your dreams.
LESLEY D. NURSE

Are you watching the boats?" Cornelia guessed. She craned her neck to see if there was any excitemen...
LESLEY M.M. BLUME

Jane Austen’s world is a unique wedge of history, immortalized by her wonderful books. It is ironi...
LESLEY-ANNE MCLEOD

Too many people realize at the end of their lives that they've taken for granted those who really lo...
LESLEY M.M. BLUME

I have come far, but not far enough. It is still a man's world.
LESLEY ANN WARREN

While the scars of the monstrous Civil War still remain, the wounds have closed since 1865, in large...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY

I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe...
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the gro...
TOMMY DOUGLAS

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
DOUGLAS ADAMS

I don't mind being a symbol but I don't want to become a monument. There are monuments all o...
TOMMY DOUGLAS

Every chef has his treats. By that, I mean bits and pieces from things you're working on - crust...
TOM DOUGLAS

We think that the world is a solid, vivid place, full of shape and colour and solid objects like thi...
DOUGLAS ADAMS

God only knows what else is on the web about me.
ILLEANA DOUGLAS

I always wanted to get into the horror genre. I like scary movies. I want to go to the fan shows and...
ILLEANA DOUGLAS

I had an obsession that I was male characters from movies.
ILLEANA DOUGLAS

I like doing movies that relate to people's experience.
ILLEANA DOUGLAS

I loved the idea of the Nerd as Hero, which Ghost World also had.
ILLEANA DOUGLAS

I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
ILLEANA DOUGLAS

I wore a lot of vintage clothing. I dressed like a reporter, with a little card in my hat. I had the...
ILLEANA DOUGLAS

I'm a big fan of Albert Brooks, Nichols and May. I'd like to follow in their footsteps and d...
ILLEANA DOUGLAS

I'm a huge poster collector.
ILLEANA DOUGLAS

I've done a few studio films in the last few years where I feel like I've done good work, an...
ILLEANA DOUGLAS

In high school, my goal was to be a writer for SNL, then I got into the acting.
ILLEANA DOUGLAS

It was an interesting way to come across in my first big role. To work with Robert DeNiro was very e...
ILLEANA DOUGLAS

It's nice to see a movie where people are actually succeeding.
ILLEANA DOUGLAS

We were big Saturday Night Live and Eddie Murphy fans.
ILLEANA DOUGLAS

When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
ILLEANA DOUGLAS

When we were doing a scene, lots of times we would collapse giggling, because it seemed so silly bec...
ILLEANA DOUGLAS

I come from a pretty strange family.
ILLEANA DOUGLAS

There's too much insecurity on studio sets, with all the people standing around, whispering.
ILLEANA DOUGLAS

The best situation is where they cast you and then they trust you.
ILLEANA DOUGLAS

Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you c...
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

It's very tough for me to focus. I'm like: 'Look, something shiny! No, focus. Oh, there ...
GABBY DOUGLAS

Smile, it's free therapy.
DOUGLAS HORTON

I was working on boats as a teenager, sweating like a pig during a summer job.
DOUGLAS LEONE

Catfish has a nice firm texture and mild flavor.
TOM DOUGLAS

The faux now of Twitter updates and things pinging at you - all the pulses from digitality that we t...
DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF

My wife and I decided to try and kick start our kitchens to a $15 minimum wage for cooks. I've p...
TOM DOUGLAS

Sometimes we spend more efforts with people that are strangers in terms of making an impression than...
MICHAEL DOUGLAS

You may have a broken heart, but you may find someone else.
DOUGLAS BOOTH

There's nothing like a family crisis, especially a divorce, to force a person to re-evaluate his...
MICHAEL DOUGLAS

I don't have a cell phone because I know how horrible it is. Using your cell phone is like putti...
DOUGLAS TOMPKINS

Slavery is not the only question which comes up in this controversy. There is a far more important o...
STEPHEN DOUGLAS

There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and wh...
DOUGLAS ADAMS

He thinks with regret of the great days when he could at harvest time at least go down into Hungary ...
DOUGLAS REED

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.
NORMAN DOUGLAS

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?
NORMAN DOUGLAS

To find a friend one must close one eye - to keep him, two.
NORMAN DOUGLAS

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertising.
NORMAN DOUGLAS

This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays.
DOUGLAS ADAMS

In 2012, the city of Austin erected an eight-foot-tall bronze statue of Willie Nelson in the heart o...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY

With 'Black Rain,' I spent a lot of time with homicide detectives, and I spent a lot of time...
MICHAEL DOUGLAS

If you're part of the Network Generation, you don't have to belong just to one nation. Dual ...
DOUGLAS ALEXANDER

Because the Internet is so new, we still don't really understand what it is. We mistake it for a...
DOUGLAS ADAMS

There were three Selma-to-Montgomery marches in March 1965, and Rosa Parks had missed the first one....
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY

When you put an individual on the cover of a big picture magazine, like 'Life of Look', thei...
DOUGLAS KIRKLAND

When I was 8 years old, I made my own encyclopedia of American biography - Johnny Appleseed, Jim Bow...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY

Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

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