Doris Lessing Quotes
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I've been called 'Bruce Lee.' I've been called other less offensive, but equally stupid and racist kind of terms.
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Basically, people in other countries don't want to have to work quite as flat-out as they do in Japan.
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From Syria even to Rome I fight with wild beasts, by land and sea, by night and by day, being bound amidst ten leopards, even a company of soldiers, who only grow worse when they are kindly treated.
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My mother and my father divorced during the time that my father was getting his Ph.D. at Tulane.
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Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true.
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A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.
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I live by a hill. I began walking it and then I began jogging it and then I began sprinting it.
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I had been very focused on the issue of education disparities in our country, and literally, by the time kids are just nine years old, in low-income communities, they're already three or four grade levels behind nine-year-olds in high-income communities.
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We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.
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Rent and the cost of essentials like food and child care are rising so fast that wages are not keeping up.
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I just try to be myself, whatever that is. I don't think about how I'll be remembered. I just want to be consistent over a long period of time. That's what the great players do.
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All of the religions are looking after the poor. At least leave me alone to look after the rich. I am the rich man's guru.
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It is neither my intention to depart from the route of John Garang nor to change the Comprehensive Peace Agreement.
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The high prices also highlight the fact that the U.S. is too heavily dependent on fossil fuels that we import from unstable parts of the world. To protect our national security, we must become more energy secure.
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To have a second movie that you're proud of and that actually turned out the way you wanted, shot by shot, I realize I'm probably going to be able to do this for a little while for my living.
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You have a burden going into any campaign when you're raising money to fund that effort because there's always a desire to spend more money than you have.
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When I was very small, maybe 8 years old, we had a big radio that stood on four legs, and it had a cross piece underneath it, and I used to take a pillow and crawl under the radio.
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Stephen Sondheim told me that Oscar Hammerstein believed everything that he wrote. So there's great truth in the songs, and that's what was so wonderful to find.
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Sometimes I think too much fuss is made about marriage. Century after century of carnal embracement and we're still no nearer to understanding one another.
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Poetry is the most intimate of all writing. I want to speak first from me to myself and then from me to you.
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I don't go to New York. I don't go to parties. I just do my business and study nature. My career is 28 years in an obscure art school, with limited staff and no perks. All I am is a teacher.
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A champion is someone who does not settle for that day's practice, that day's competition, that day's performance. They are always striving to be better. They don't live in the past.
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I'm not one of those writers that sits worrying about posthumous fame.
