Doris Lessing Quotes
I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.
Doris Lessing
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I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.
Patrick Stewart
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I feel very, very, very intent on only releasing things that I believe are fully worthy.
Jack Antonoff
Fun.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
S. Jay Olshansky
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The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.
Warren Bennis
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Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.
Feist
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I don't really believe in the auteur theory.
Park Chan-wook
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I definitely have the screenwriting itch.
Victoria Aveyard
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Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.
Taylor Caldwell
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When I was asked to leave, I left... Then they made me come back. I did, and I decided to enjoy it. It was one year. I care about everyone at 'Criminal Minds' but I knew, in my heart, I had left.
Paget Brewster
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I want to see as many movies as I can and I covet a lot of weird influential movies.
Kat Dennings
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Unfortunately we - and I'm speaking not for Latin America but for Mexico because that's where I come from - we still, I think, are a little bit macho. Not that we only live in a macho world, but we also think as a macho world; even the women, you know? The women in Mexico, because that's the way we were raised.
Kate del Castillo
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Novels taught me that history is dramatic. I wanted my students to know that, too.
Laura Amy Schlitz
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I aim for four workouts a week. I work out with a trainer once a week. Then, I take a circuit class twice a week. The fourth workout is random, depending on what I'm in the mood for - either a run, a spin class, or yoga.
Emily Giffin
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A lot of our assumptions of the world are fairly cynical, fairly negative, and assume the worst. What our reading tastes show - in this rush to fantasy, romance, whatever - is that we actually still want to believe in a world of possibility, in a world of mystery.
Deborah Harkness
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In the old days the studios guided your career. Now it's all up to you.
Bill Paxton
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I was always taught that book keeping was more relevant than book reading. The only thing worth reading was meant to be a balance sheet.
Ashwin Sanghi
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Ignorance has no beginning, but it has an end. There is a beginning but no end to knowledge.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
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I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.
Doris Lessing
