Doris Lessing Quotes
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I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''
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Katie Holmes is really amazing.
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I think poetry is a fabulous medium to encapsulate thoughts far more precisely than prose.
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'A living dog is better than a dead lion.' Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion for this work, is at least a caged and toothless one. How can he oppose the advances of slavery? He don't care anything about it.
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The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.
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I just think that if one is going to preach nonviolence and one is going to advocate for nonviolence, one's standard should be consistent.
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I was a 'Glee' fan before I joined the show! Since my background is musical theater, it was exciting to see a TV show that incorporated music so much and in such a genius way.
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Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
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Probably not needing to be published would give me more time to think about a book.
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The greatest compliment a writer can be given is that a story and character hold a reader spellbound. I'm caught up in the story writing and I miss a good deal of sleep thinking about it and working out the plot points.
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Hollywood is horrible... it's beyond satire.
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Governments have monopolies on certain things, like eminent domain and deadly force.
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Beloved friends and comrades... the national Libertarian Party is dead.
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When I come home, I'm just Maisie, and everywhere I go, I'm just Maisie!
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I definitely see myself continuing to transition into more acting roles. I'll always be a coach. I'm always going to have a training center, always going to work with guys that are looking for some input and want help. I love commentating, and that's something I can always go back to and enjoy doing.
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Even if there is endless documentation, it would be impossible to know what a man thought inside his own mind... This is where the novelist's creative imagination has to take over.
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It's pretty easy to tell who's garbage and who's not right away, and most people suck, to be honest, or they're just really wrapped up in what's going on with themselves.
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If you didn't know that I am an actress, I don't think you could tell from my lifestyle. I cook and cook and cook. I like to be with my daughter. She's 16, so of course I bore her.
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Winning is like shaving - you do it every day or you wind up looking like a bum.
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No medicine is more valuable , none more efficacious, none better suited to the cure of our temporal ills than a friend to whom we may turn for consolation in time of trouble, and with whom we may share happiness in time of joy.
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The technology actually seemed to come at just the right time to make the Hulk - Mark Ruffalo was really able to play both characters.
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To know how to dissimulate is the knowledge of kings.
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Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.
