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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It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead.
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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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You can make fun of everything.
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A streak of Puritanism runs deep within American society. Permissive and pioneering as we may be on the one hand, we are strict and conservative on the other. As much as we may be a country of mavericks and entrepreneurs, we are also a country of finger waggers and name-callers. As much as we may be a country of compassion for the underdog, we are also a country that believes in self-reliance.
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You’ll never stumble upon the unexpected if you stick only to the familiar.
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I thought I was the last American weirdo then I met Chris Chandler.
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Money only buys the illusion of power. Real power is in the force of will - will strong enough that others bend to it for its own sake, and follow it willingly. Power that is won through deception will evaporate under the hot light of truth.
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It's lovely to have money to give away - that's the bonus of winning the Nobel.
