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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I grew up in the next town over from Asbury Park and five streets from E Street. My mother fed me 'Born To Run' with my Cheerios.
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A society in which conjugal infidelity is tolerated must always be in the long run a society adverse to women.
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People find life entirely too time-consuming.
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Quiet this metal! Let the manes put off their terror, let them put off their aqueous bodies with fire. Let them assume the milk-white bodies of agate. Let them draw together the bones of the metal.
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A collection that embraces the whole world allows you to consider the whole world. That is what an institution such as the British Museum is for.
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I am your original autodidact.
