Doris Lessing Quotes
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A lot of young chefs today get carried away by trends, by influences, by movements.
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It is not only that Germany has been defeated in the war, Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany was defeated.
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When you get into the granny era, you're lucky to get anything.
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The Lakers have been nothing but great to me, and I want to keep the relationship great.
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I go to New York to see live shows, not movies.
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Directing plays lacked the immediacy and connection to real world events that journalism offered; journalism lacked the drama, theatricality and subjective storytelling of theater. It wasn't until I had the idea of making a documentary film about the 1992 presidential campaign that these two passions came together in 'The War Room.'
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It is actually the neuroscientists and evolutionists who do the best job of explaining the reasons behind the most unreasonable behavior.
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I think of guitar players in terms of doctors: you have the doctor for your heart, the cardiologist, then one that works on your feet, your leg. But I believe George Benson is the one that plays all over. To me, he would be the M.D. of them all.
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The only thing that's different between high profile or celebrity divorces is that you have to do all you can to keep your client and the details out of the media.
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It might as well be said, 'Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat.'
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I owe the public nothing.
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«The decisions are made in the moment they are made.»
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'To judge a man by his weakest link or deed is like judging the power of the ocean by one wave.'
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No pretext, arising from religious opinions, shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.
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'As in the focus of a magnifying glass, play contains all developmental tendencies in a condensed form and is itself a major source of development.'
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I used to go to sports camp every summer. I'd make a lot of new friends, and it was all athletic. It was basically a place for parents to send their kids to run out all their summer energy for two weeks.
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Since I'm a mother and a wife, I have to have passion or the frustration would win out. But I love managing people. The product is second to managing the people. And marketing to consumers is so challenging because it is evolving constantly.
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Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book.
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It's nice to always make an effort when you get photographed.
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I just have these lapses. Guess I'm stuck with it. But I play better when I get behind. I say to myself, 'Now I have to play well.'
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If you can't eat it, shoot it, or wear it, don't bring it.
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I think that's all just a bit of luck that I've gotten to do such different stuff. I don't know if it's a good thing to not do something, just 'cause it's too similar to what you've done.
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I am your original autodidact.
