Doris Lessing Quotes
When I became political and Communist, it was because they were the only people I had ever met who fought the color bar in their lives.
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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
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I'm more like an animalistic rock chick.
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I don't jog, if I die I want to be sick.
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Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.
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I'm always shocked when I see myself because I don't recognize myself.
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Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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I have a great office.
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God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.
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I wish I had come along when the studios were making those big musical pictures. It would be great to do re-makes of some of the old ones like 'Porgy and Bess' or 'Showboat.' I'd love to do 'em.
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Over the past months and years, divisions have opened up in Malaysian society. Now it is time for all of us, in government and beyond, to put the bitterness behind us.
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I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I'm on the road.
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I have been learning English on the road since I started when I was 15, so it is a slow process but making some progress. Now I think I am much more comfortable with my English. However, it is difficult, still, when I speak about something that is not tennis.
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I found the happiest woman in America is between 50 and 55, is happily married, has made significant progress in her career, and lives in a community where she can easily exercise outside. But the most important single thing was she had her last child before she was 35.
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My mission is to support our service members. They're volunteers, and if they're going to go to a hostile place like Afghanistan, I think we owe it to them to back them up and try to help them get through it.
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I think a great athlete transcends eras.
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I used to go down every year for the remembrance of Elvis' birthday. Memphis State College invited me to sit in the auditorium and speak to the people for one of those Elvis days.
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The greatest benefit of being a solo performer is that it is seriously frightening, but at the same time very empowering. It's just you and the audience. All the weight is on you to deliver the songs.
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I am not the kind of director who sits in a chair smoking a cigar talking with a microphone to 10 assistants. I need to move. To touch. To put a painting on a wall. To arrange a set.
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I love to read. And right now I'm on my last hundred pages of 'The Corrections' by Jonathan Franzen, and I really enjoyed it. His writing is just - he's one of those writers where you just go, 'There are people just meant to be novel writers.'
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I try to give people hope. Even though life is bleak, there's hope out there.
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My grandmother has kept all of his stuff in a drawer. This one notebook was particularly chilling. He's [howard Brookner] writing to his parents knowing he has a death sentence; his movies are how he'll live on.
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Baseball has always been filled with negative statistics.
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We'll always have bureaucracies, but bureaucracies led by bureaucrats might be too much of a bad thing.
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When I became political and Communist, it was because they were the only people I had ever met who fought the color bar in their lives.
