Doris Lessing Quotes
Whenever I met anyone who knew anything, I would bore them stiff until they told me what they knew.
Quotes to Explore
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Thanks to the Japanese and Geronimo, John Wayne became a millionaire.
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Especially if you're endeavouring daily to write your own books, you read with a degree of - well, it's hard to forget you're a writer when you're reading.
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As in any technological revolution, there will be winners and losers. On balance, everyone will come out ahead, although there will be particular companies that will not be able to cope with a new environment.
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I had been feeling a little rum. I didn't think it was anything serious because years ago I felt a lump and it was benign. I assumed this would be too. It kind of takes the wind out of your sails, and I don't know what the future holds, if anything.
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The thing I learned from 'Pride and Glory' is that people like to feel a little better leaving the theater than they did coming in.
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Spirituality is a growth industry. And nothing illustrates that better than the burgeoning crop of colossal sanctuaries sprouting up in suburbs across the land.
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They said they wanted a lot of feathers, glitter, colourful colours. A costume. So I had a lady here in Calgary make it. She just kind of put together what I had in mind.
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I like fishing. Not actual fishing - I like the peace and quiet of being at sea. It's different.
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Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.
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If you have children, you worry about the world you're leaving them.
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I definitely want to continue acting and performing.
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And I think that George Bush really is a very godly person.
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Most of the early part of an actor's career, you do the jobs you get.
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You never know what can happen. I feel like I have a pretty good chance, but you never know.
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I think I'm a born storyteller. Inspiration is all around me. I can read a newspaper article and come up with an idea for a book.
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I know that Philadelphians hate New York actors passing off New York accents as Philadelphian when they are quite different.
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There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.
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This day is a day that is proud to me, having occupied the position that I did for the past twelve years, and been misunderstood by your race. This is the first opportunity I have had during that time to say that I am your friend. I am here a representative of the southern people, one more slandered and maligned than any man in the nation.
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I have listened to you, to our people. I have heard your doubts, your anxieties, nay, outright opposition to the lifting of Martial Law. And I have prayed to the Almighty for guidance. And it is after deliberate, sober judgment and soul-searching that I come before you and say, it is now time to terminate martial law.
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HERE It’s- Can I say? It’s like the song of a family where everything’s always all right, it’s a song of belonging that makes you belong just by hearing it, it’s a song that’ll always take care of you and never leave you. If you have a heart, it breaks, if you have a heart that’s broken, it fixes.
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With Alzheimer's patients, you have to be very careful what you say when you're looking at them over their bed. Because once in a while, they understand it.
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There are many kinds of movies in Hong Kong. Some are commercial and others are more artistic.
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I feel like there's no such thing as gender.
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Whenever I met anyone who knew anything, I would bore them stiff until they told me what they knew.
