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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I think you have to go and fill your cup and do so diversely; otherwise, then you burn out.
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The more people get advised to eat vegetables, the less it seems they wish to eat them. And it is quite a natural response. So I've said that the main way that we get to like food is through being exposed to them, but there's a second condition. We have to be exposed to them without feeling any sense of coercion.
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There was always a piano in the house when I was growing up - my dad played, and I thought it was cool - and when I was eight, I begged my parents to let me have lessons. After a couple of weeks, I wanted to give up, but my parents were very focused and made me keep going, which I'm very pleased about now.
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Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.
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I'm not one of those writers that sits worrying about posthumous fame.
