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 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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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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But the war on terror as I have repeatedly said in the past, and the Afghan people believe in it, in truth, is that the war on terror is not in the Afghan villages or homes. Its in the sanctuaries, it is in the training grounds, its in the motivation factors and the money that comes to it.
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What's important is to be able to see yourself, I think, as having commonality with other people and not determine, because of your good luck, that everybody is less significant, less interesting, less important than you are.
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Then, at some point, you get identified with certain things.
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My priority is having the ability to be creative and to come up with the right decisions and not be fettered. If there are a lot of people involved in decision making, it can become frustrating.
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St. Peter announced the glad tidings of the Gospel to the people on the day of Pentecost, and converted, by the first Christian sermon, ever preached, three thousand - which formed the primitive Church.
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My family supported me. I wasn't hot-housed at all as a young child; I didn't go to any kind of gifted school. They didn't exist in the very poor parts of England when I grew up in the 1980s. I had a great time to learn, had access to libraries and teachers who were patient and enthusiastic when I showed ability in some subjects.
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It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.
