Doris Lessing Quotes
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A happy wife is a happy life.
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It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.
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In the child, consciousness rises out of the depths of unconscious psychic life, at first like separate islands, which gradually unite to form a 'continent,' a continuous landmass of consciousness. Progressive mental development means, in effect, extension of consciousness.
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What the 'supposed 99 percent' don't realize is that they are better off if there are more fat cats, not less.
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There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.
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Laquan McDonald is a wake-up call to all of us. It's a reminder there's a lot broken.
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Friends are really important, especially when you've had the successes that I've had. I've gone really far in my career, so they're the ones that keep you humble, keep your feet on the ground.
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While I was writing 'Stick Out Your Tongue' in Beijing, the police began knocking on my door again. As soon as I finished the book, I moved to Hong Kong so that I could work undisturbed on my next novel.
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I'm a military guy. I'm not a political character.
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Honestly, I get more recognized for 'Three Men and a Little Lady' than 'Harry Potter'.
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I had five children in six years. The day I brought my fifth baby home, that week, my daughter turned 6.
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I have a job to do on policy. And I think that's what people want their governor to do. Not politics, policy.
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I used to find great difficulty in drawing feet.
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People don't hear me talk. They don't expect me to.
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You see, every day, that the people who are seemingly so confident and seemingly so in love with themselves are the ones who are the most insecure and hurting the most inside.
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CompUSA was a bad decision. We stayed too much with CompUSA, and we stayed too short with Apple.
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There is a sense of purity in theatre which always attracts me. Deep down, I feel I am more of an artist than a commodity, which Bollywood turns you into. I want to strike a balance.
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I didn't get any crazy sponsors. I don't have any extra sponsors since I got the belt.
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If you've ever had to recall your past in some way and you open a drawer of old photographs that your parents kept, there are always pictures of you smiling and charming, and then a bunch of people you don't know who they are. Could be aunts, uncles, could be the postman for all you know. Who are these people? Your parents are never in the picture, because they are the ones taking them. So you've got these unrelated images that are disconnected from your memories.
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When I was in seventh grade, I was bored out of my mind. We seemed to be learning the same things over and over in science and math, and two of the boys in my class were allowed to move ahead into these advanced classes, but I wasn't allowed because I was a girl.
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Your voice is important - it gives away everything about you. The mouth is a muscle you have to work like you'd work at the gym.
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There is a statistic I heard a number of years ago: if you know somebody who is 85 years old, that person was born into a world that had a third as many people as the world does today. The population has tripled in the past 85 years.
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I'm compulsive.
