Doris Lessing Quotes
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Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.'
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I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
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For the first six months of my stand-up career, I was talking like Danny Dyer. I was doing a lot of 'alright guvnors?' It wasn't true to who I was.
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I definitely want to win a gold medal, that should be everybody's goal.
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I would say that 'Shake It Up' was a chance for me to do two things I really love: acting and dancing.
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I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me, but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is.
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If one girl with courage is a revolution, imagine what feats we can achieve together.
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I was always a little adult. Even as a little kid, I just couldn't understand why I was surrounded by all these kids. I took things very seriously.
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God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
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For me, I can't see Liverpool without him because he's just been there since I was a kid. I had him on the back of my shirt. He's always been on the team every time I've watched Liverpool. It's going to be really weird next season, a Steven Gerrard-less Liverpool side.
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My mom didn't want us to go to the candy house, she didn't want us to go to the ice cream truck, she didn't want us to go to the... There was actually a donut truck, if that makes sense.
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People who understand context would be steamed to have someone else dictating how they can call it.
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The friendships which last are those wherein each friend respects the other's dignity to the point of not really wanting anything from him.
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I came from an environment where I needed to succeed. There was no wealth or anything like that in the family. Not that we were paupers, but we had to fend for ourselves. Kids today are not as hungry as I was. They don’t understand how tough my generation was.
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Road, n. A strip of land along which one may pass from where it is too tiresome to be to where it is futile to go.
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You die alone in your house, and your cat will eat you.
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I'm short, I'm Jewish and I'm a liberal.
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I never go straight to the point if I can go the most difficult way. Why be simple when you can be complicated?
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Where I grew up, most people were policemen. So naturally, I also wanted to be a policeman.
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We need more leaders speaking up for minority groups who have been marginalized and attacked.
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It's perfectly obvious that somebody's responsible and somebody's innocent. Otherwise it [justice] makes no sense at all.
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My sister Kwan believes she has yin eyes. She sees those who have died and now dwell in the World of Yin, ghosts who leave the mists just to visit her kitchen on Balboa Street in San Francisco. 'Libby-ah,' she'll say to me. 'Guess who I see yesterday, you guess.' And I don't have to guess that she's talking about someone dead.
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I'll be pleased when I'm dead. That will let me off worrying about all these wars.
