Doris Lessing Quotes
It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.
Quotes to Explore
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The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.
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I want to see more Asians on TV. I want to see more faces like mine on TV.
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As a mom, I don't have much time for beauty.
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I'm very much a hypochondriac, worried about dying, and not having enough time to work with the people I want to work with and being fulfilled as an actor.
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I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
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I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet.
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You do your work as fully as you can, and the ones who hear the sound join in.
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When you make a movie, you really have to be clever and smart, find something new for the worldwide audience because you aren't making a movie for just France or Germany; it's for everyone in the world.
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As the power of Christianity declined through the centuries that have followed the Reformation, Calvinism played a less and less important part, while the new philosophies of mechanism and rationalism correspondingly increased.
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Winning and making history is something you can't buy. Me? I'm a guy who loves history. When I'm 60 or 70, I don't want to be remembered for the money I make. I want to be in the history books.
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When you have a movie, you know who they start out as and where they go. But this is constantly changing, and you're growing with the character.
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Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.
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Whether I'm wearing lots of makeup or no makeup, I'm always the same person inside.
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For most Americans, my Chinese music feels like a novelty, and it's not what it is for me.
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That's what the sari is about. Everything is covered, yet a peep of an ankle can be a turn on for men.
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We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.
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Trans folk, especially of color, should not be obligated to help cis folk play catch-up on our experiences. The effort can detract from our work to protect and liberate ourselves.
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With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.
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You can't change anyone else, but people do change in relationship to your change.
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I am a huge, huge fan of the plain white tee. A good-fitting, vintage plain white t-shirt, like the 'boyfriend shirt', is the sexiest thing a girl can wear. It goes with anything, fancy or casual.
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I'd like to work more, but I don't just want to do kind of generic characters. I want to do interesting characters, and I'd like to be cast against type.
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It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.
