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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Neo-conservatives are unlike old conservatives because they are utilitarians, not moralists, and because their aim is the prosperity of post-industrial society, not the recovery of a golden age.
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In the '80s, everything became too serious.
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Those who expect radical changes in policy and direction are mistaken and lost. The government of the fourth republic will build on what was undertaken by previous governments and will continue with all good things.
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I've done a handful of great roles.
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A story is how we construct our experiences.
