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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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
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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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The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
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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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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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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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We have to bring communities together in order to begin working on that as a mutual goal.
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The Epistle is a correction of profession without life, and most valuable in this respect.
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The difference now is that the paparazzi get paid fortunes. That's what motivates people; it's about the money, sadly, at anyone's expense.
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It's lovely to have money to give away - that's the bonus of winning the Nobel.
