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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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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I like to go to the movies or read.
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I felt cheated by the way grown-ups told me that the future of the world was bleak when I became a teenager in the 1970s. The pollution explosion was unstoppable. Global famine was inevitable. I genuinely want the next generation, my own kids, to know that actually it's possible that the future might be better than the past.
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Let us not be deceived - we are today in the midst of a cold war. Our enemies are to be found abroad and at home. Let us never forget this: Our unrest is the heart of their success. The peace of the world is the hope and the goal of our political system; it is the despair and defeat of those who stand against us.
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If you don't hire originals, you run the risk of people disagreeing but not voicing their dissent.
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I'll be pleased when I'm dead. That will let me off worrying about all these wars.
