Doris Lessing Quotes
It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.
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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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When I was a kid, there was so much talent outside of recorded music.
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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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If I could jump right from one project, have 2 days to rest, and jump right into the next one, I would.
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The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness.
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I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.
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A woman can only become a man’s friend in three stages: first, she’s an agreeable acquaintance, then a mistress, and only after that a friend.
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We're entertainers, while people want us to be gods.
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It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.
