Doris Lessing Quotes
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I grew up on cricket and I think Australian kids are getting so Americanized, you know?
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In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
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I once went to one of those parties where everyone throws their car keys into the middle of the room. I don't know who got my moped, but I drove that Peugeot for years.
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We'll always be fascinated by people who live above the law.
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I did Our Daily Bread for King and that made me popular in the Soviet Union; King was amused by that.
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A busybody's work is never done.
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There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
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I feel like a lot of directing is casting.
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Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
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From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.
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I am proud to have played a small part in ensuring that no veteran's heroic service will be cast aside due to prejudice.
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As awful as crime can be, it's what happens afterward - the struggling to get out of bed, to put one foot in front of the other - that alters people.
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Celebrities are just like us and like any of your friends. I love working with people.
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Ordinarily if an actor gets chosen for the lead in a film, he or she has already built up a repertoire, and everyone knows what he or she is capable of.
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For me, rockabilly is very, very exciting music. It's electric and kind of wild, you know? It's 'make your hairs stand up on the back of your neck' kind of music.
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The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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My family is more a sports family, and I figure skated for a very long time, so movement and how I relate to movement is very integral to my process.
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My mom raised me with the idea of doing public service, and I definitely want to go in that direction. But I also want to follow in my dad's entrepreneurial footsteps.
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Consumers have not been told effectively enough that they have huge power and that purchasing and shopping involve a moral choice.
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I probably make more money in a year on 'Newhart' than 70 percent of your working top-name stars. Some weeks I just have six lines, but it doesn't bother me.
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The best teachers that I had were always the ones I never wanted to disappoint.
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I like being full, every day, with stuff that I have to do.
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It's lovely to have money to give away - that's the bonus of winning the Nobel.
