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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'She is rightly called not only the mother of the man, but also the Mother of God ... It is certain that Mary is the Mother of the real and true God.
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I'm so thankful for that struggling period. That time is really great where you have no idea what's going to happen.
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I just feel like, for whatever reason, female playwrights don't really ask me to do their plays. Nothing would make me happier than finding the sisterhood, but I can't make them.
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I love Cleveland, and I love going back home. That's where my family is. That's where my roots are.
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It is more important to have self-respect than to gain respect from others.
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It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.
