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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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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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 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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To unwind, I like to have a relaxing bath.
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A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher.
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It's evolve or die, really, you have to evolve, you have to move on otherwise it just becomes stagnant.
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On quantum theory I use up more brain grease than on relativity.
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I can’t travel every weekend. I like to spend some weekends at my studio.
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I've told youngsters not to write their autobiographical novel at the age of twenty-one; to save it for the time when they're fifty-one or sixty-one. They should write other novels first, to learn their craft; they shouldn't cut their teeth on the valuable material of childhood because they'll never have better material, ever, to work with.
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Therefore I feel that the aforementioned guiding principle must be modified to read: If you desire peace, cultivate justice, but at the same time cultivate the fields to produce more bread; otherwise there will be no peace.
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I'll be pleased when I'm dead. That will let me off worrying about all these wars.
