Doris Lessing Quotes
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For those unfortunate enough to experience it, long-term unemployment - now, as in the 1930s - is a tragedy. And, for society as a whole, there is the danger that the productive capacity of a significant portion of the labour force will be impaired.
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I gain strength out of familiar surroundings.
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It is ingrained in all living creatures, first of all, to preserve their own safety, to guard against what is harmful, to strive for what is advantageous.
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Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.
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Her name was called Lady Helena Herring and her age was 25 and she mated well with the earl.
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I have a ship's bed, which totally plays to my obsession of, if I were not an actress, I would be a pirate.
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Spanglish is a creative way also of saying, 'I am an American, and I have my own style, my own taste, my own tongue.'
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Normally, the same strange impulse which brings a crowd to an accident is present in the reaction to a concert in which something goes wrong.
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Let's means-test benefits - let's means-test Social Security and Medicare and make the rich pay more for these benefits.
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Often something more simple would be better. Sometimes I put things together - a shirt, a sweater, a jacket - and it's too complicated. I would have worn only a v-neck sweater, it would have been better. It's not the clothes but it's how you wear them sometimes.
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The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.
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I would actually like to play Bobby Brown. To me, he was just the King of R&B at one point.
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I miss that sensation of a small achievement feeling like a really big deal.
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What I've been conscious of, from the beginning is that I can't be Jil Sander.
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The only thing I like about rich people is their money.
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I think of myself as a little kid, and I had a wild imagination, but it was something that was encouraged and supported, which helped steer me into the arts.
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The British were white, English, and Protestant, just as we were. They had to have some other basis on which to justify independence, and happily they were able to formulate the inalienable truths set forth in the Declaration.
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I get to have Sunday lunch at my mum's, pick my nephew up from school now and then: it's a very normal life.
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It's very difficult, I think, especially on two cellphones, to have a romantic conversation.
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I love all kinds of music, and I would write really traditional country songs and songs that were just really out there, that didn't sound country at all, and everything in between.
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People are patronizing the theatres with renewed enthusiasm - there is an entire picnic-like attitude when families go out to see movies, which is a very good sign. They want to see larger-than-life characters on the big screen and not just watch movies on television or on DVDs.
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If you're a little mouseburger, come with me. I was a mouseburger and I will help you. You're so much more wonderful than you think. Cosmopolitan is shot full of this stuff although outsiders don't realize it. It is, in its way, an inspiration magazine.
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A writer falls in love with an idea and gets carried away.
