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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All prizes have a role, if they are run with integrity and with a clear focus on reading and quality writing. I don't think any of them is necessary, but they all play an incredibly important role in building a body of literature, in introducing new authors to new readers, and extending reading.
Kate Mosse
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I'll take no charity! What I get I'll earn by taking it. I would feel no pleasure it being given to me, any more than a huntsman would take pleasure being made a present of a dead fox, in place of getting a run across country after it.
Lady Gregory
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The film, 'Aftershock,' for me is really about how the minor problems in life that we think are so major ultimately mean nothing when a tragedy happens, when a real problem happens.
Eli Roth
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Online is such an important platform... it's all one giant melting pot of talents. The times are changing. It's just art now. You can share your audiences with everyone, and it's exciting.
Lindsey Stirling
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I discovered what is and isn't important to me. I decided I really wanted to enjoy life with someone fun, who can make the best out of any situation - whatever it is we're doing.
Jennifer Morrison
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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
