Doris Lessing Quotes
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After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures.
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What I'm concerned about is making sure that every single time somebody who grew up with us goes off to a different platform or a different device, we're going to be there with a Univision-branded product of some kind.
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You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.
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No doubt about it. For every player. Thursday nights are very tough for us because it is a short turnaround.
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I have like 20 snap-up shirts in my closet, and I never, never would have thought before FNL would I have had that.
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If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone considered undesirable seems to be a common temptation, not always resisted.
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I have been given the authority over you, and I am not the best of you. If I do well, help me; and if I do wrong, set me right. Sincere regard for truth.
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I didn't have a record player.
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The very first tournament I watched is the U.S. Open when I was 13. And that was the year Juli Inkster won.
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I have crashed on a motorcycle that was going at 140mph, so I know what it feels like.
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I've never been shy or secretive with the fact that if you walk into my life, you may be walking onto a record.
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My audience went, 'Wait, why is she singing jazz? What's going on?' And then they went, 'Oh, because she can. Because she loves it.' And jazz, a music invented by the African-American community, is the greatest art form, I believe, to have ever come out of this country.
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The hardest thing for a chef is to become comfortable with what you do. Not to be too neurotic and worried with what you are doing and how wrong or right you are.
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I didn't even realize that I was interested in film until I was in college, and since then, I've had a very uncertain and sort of lost decade.
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The world is not yet exhausted: let me see something to-morrow which I never saw before.
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At that stage my heart ruled my head'.
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When a woman appears to express fear, we cannot assure her without at least releasing her from responsibility; when we interpret the same emotion in a man as anger, we want to blame him and be certain he acknowledges responsibility. We want to find her guiltless; we want to find him guilty.
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The immigrationist religion is an insult for human beings, whose integrity is always bound to one national community, one language, one culture.
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In regard to this Great Book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man.
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Writing the past is never a neutral act. Writing always asks the past to justify itself, to give its reasons... provided we can live with the reasons. What we want is a narrative, not a log; a tale, not a trial. This is why most people write memoirs using the conventions not of history, but of fiction.
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When a man makes up his mind to thrash another, he must also make up his mind to be a little thrashed himself.
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If you can't write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public.
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A story is how we construct our experiences.
