I get a little Verlaine for Patsy with drawings by Bonnard although I do think of Hesiod, trans. Richmond Lattimore or Brendan Behan's new play or Le Balcon or Les Negres of Genet, but I don't, I stick with Verlaine after practically going to sleep with quandariness
If I did not publish this autobiography [Les Mots] sooner and in its most radical form, it is because I considered it exaggerated.
Messieurs, c'est les microbes qui auront le dernier mot. " (Gentlemen, it is the microbes who will have the last word. )
Franchement, quand je survole certains pays européens (les éoliennes) ne donne pas envie. (Frankly, when I fly over some European countries, their turbines don't fill me with envy. )
When I was a 7-year-old girl, in my bedroom, on my karaoke machine, I would sing 'On My Own' or do a one-woman version of 'Les Miserables. '
Vienne la nuit sonne l'heure Les jours s'en vont je demeure
I wrote in Les Mots that "I have often thought against myself. " That sentence has not been understood either. Critics have seen in it a confession of masochism. But that is how one should think: revolting against everything "inculcated'' that one may have within oneself.
The sign said "eight items or less". So I changed my name to Les.
In Les Mots I explain the origin of my madness, of my neurosis. This analysis may help the young who dream of writing.
The smallest errors are always the best. [Fr. , Les plus courtes erreurs sont toujours les meilleures. ]
I don't feel guilty about the music I love. If you feel guilty about something you dig, then you should stop feeling guilty about it. One of my favorite albums to this day is the 10th anniversary ensemble cast of 'Les Miserables,' the ultimate cast recording, and it is still something I love listening to top to bottom.
I think Les Moonves is the most highly overrated person in television.
If you had of told me age 10 that in 19 years time I would be on a stage in Salford performing with Les Dennis in a sitcom I had written, I would have believed you.
My first guitar, a Fender Jazz Master, I traded it in for a Les Paul Deluxe.
. . . there is a point when the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confused in a word, a mortal word, les miserables
I have loved 'Les Miz' for so long. It was the first Broadway show I'd ever done.
Always open all gates and roads to your enemies, and rather make for them a bridge of silver, to get rid of them. [Fr. , Ouvrez toujours a vos ennemis toutes les portes et chemin, et plutot leur faites un pont d'argent, afin de les renvoyer. ]
I did a lot of lying. I went through a big lying phase when I was in like third and fourth grade. I told all my friends I was in Les Misérables, and I was not. I also told them I was an Indian princess. Also not an Indian princess.
Segui il tuo corso et lascia dir les genti. (Follow your road and let the people say).
I trained myself. Long ago, `Boy' [Arthur] Capel introduced me to 'Bludgeon the Poor!' (Assommons les pauvres!) which, rejecting resignation, informed my moral outlook for life.
