Doris Lessing Quotes
What the feminists want of me is something they haven't examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness.
Quotes to Explore
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My best advice to anybody who has a child with a disability is to really find the tools for that person to thrive and find what their true passions are, because the rest will follow.
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Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.
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I allow my intuition to lead my path.
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I'm proud to say I've never been anybody's lapdog.
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I definitely understand what it's like not having family around when you want them there, but you don't live in the same city.
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My father always said I have a face for radio, and 'Cloverfield' was one of my finest pieces of work.
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Arab civilizations had been of an abstract nature, moral and intellectual rather than applied; and their lack of public spirit made their excellent private qualities futile. They were fortunate in their epoch: Europe had fallen barbarous; and the memory of Greek and Latin learning was fading from men's minds.
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The thing you notice here after America is how refreshingly ordinary people look because they haven't had their chin wrapped around the back of their ears.
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There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.
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The job of the president of the United States is to talk to the public, is to explain to them. Now, some presidents talk too much, like Bill Clinton. Some presidents try to talk but don't know how, like George Bush senior.
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I have to thank the People, the Congress, and the Government of the United States for my liberation.
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And I don't believe that melodramatic feelings are laughable - they should be taken absolutely seriously.
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I wanted to be less well-known in comedy.
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You can't believe everything you read. I am only six foot three, by the way.
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The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place.
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There are evil people, and I don't even want to hear those guys speak.
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A woman always remembers. Remember that.
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People weren't willing to bet on 'The Commercial Guy' when they were casting movies and television in the beginning, but I stuck around, and now it's slowly starting to pay off.
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Acting is mostly about listening. If you just focus in on what the other person is saying, acting takes care of itself to quite a large extent.
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The tennis challenger starts strong but soon loses confidence in his playing. The champion racks up the games. But in the final set, when the challenger has nothing left to lose, he becomes relaxed again, insouciant, daring. Suddenly he's playing like the devil and the champion must work hard to get those last points.
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You must never call it the Shetlands. Islanders are proud and can be prickly about the name: it's either Shetland or the Shetland Islands.
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I understood, through rehab, things about creating characters. I understood that creating whole people means knowing where we come from, how we can make a mistake and how we overcome things to make ourselves stronger.
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The crown is not my right, and pleaseth me not. The Lady Mary is the rightful heir.
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What the feminists want of me is something they haven't examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness.
