Doris Lessing Quotes
When I was bringing up a child, I taught myself to write in very short, concentrated bursts. If I had a weekend, or a week, I'd do unbelievable amounts of work.
Quotes to Explore
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I am telling you, if you ever wanted an ego boost, leave your job and then, six months later, come back for a day. People will treat you like you're a princess.
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Let a hundred flowers bloom.
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Bond? It is a bit like saying, 'Do you want to play Superman?' Anyone would dream of it. It's one of the most coveted roles in film. I'd be honoured. But I don't know if it will actually happen. I'm just happy with the idea of being associated with it. It's nice there's a lot of good will.
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In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.
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Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.
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The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good.
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'The Voice' was the first real job I've ever had that wasn't just messing around with music.
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Dating is a numbers game. What we try to promise is good first dates. Once that first date happens, it's really up to you.
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The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
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I kind of stumbled into comics in a roundabout way. One of the first films my father introduced me to was the 1989 'Batman,' the Tim Burton one.
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I have always been interested in design, but in the beginning I didn't set out to make jewelry specifically.
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Sometimes I see through things when people are talking. I'm really sensitive to other people, so I can tell if somebody's putting on a front.
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I'm always glad when people come together to help each other - whether they're raising money for somebody in a bad situation or making a creative piece like a song.
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My main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm-heartedness, not based on religion, but based on common experience and a common sort of sense, and then scientific finding.
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I do confess to being the exasperated, bossy, know-it-all, overachieving big sister.
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I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.
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Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.
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I was blessed to have a mother and father that recognized the value of education.
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Barry Bonds in the news. Yesterday Barry Bonds' agent said that Bonds could hit as many as 1,000 home runs. And the agent admitted he's on more drugs than Barry Bonds.
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We can only be what we give ourselves the power to be.
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It is the perfection of God's works that they are all done with the greatest simplicity. He is the God of order and not of confusion. And therefore as they would understand the frame of the world must endeavor to reduce their knowledge to all possible simplicity, so must it be in seeking to understand these visions.
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It's time to recognize what compromise means: no side wins or loses all.
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When I was bringing up a child, I taught myself to write in very short, concentrated bursts. If I had a weekend, or a week, I'd do unbelievable amounts of work.
