Doris Lessing Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I'm used to very low-budget situations. In 'The Exploding Girl,' we were literally changing in Starbucks because we didn't have trailers.
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I see my role as a scholar announcing that women's feelings of unworthiness and insecurity often may be traced to training in a male-oriented religion, and I'm trying to investigate a richer spiritual life for both sexes.
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I've always really liked the rhythm element of songs.
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My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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I know Dark Phoenix is a huge part of the X-Men saga, so I'm assuming they're at least going to want to touch on it, but I don't know and I don't know whether I would want to be involved. That depends on many different things.
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Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering.
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In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.
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Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
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Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.
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I played small forward on the basketball team. I also ran the 300 hurdles.
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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
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God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again.
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The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.
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I have been involved with the USO really my entire life. The first show I did for the USO, I was nine years old.
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It's really important, especially for young girls, to see that if you fall down, you get back up. If you get sick, you get back up. People are going to say what they want.
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People like to hear me say, 'You love me, Chandler Bing. You just don't know you love me.'
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I've felt that if you dwell too much on your errors, you're dealing in the negativity of things. I don't like that. I'd rather work on the positive reinforcement, the things I did well.
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I don't know how I got out of some of the scrapes I was in. But I know that there's some sort of plan.
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Let's be clear about what Common Core is. It spells out what students should know at the end of each grade. The goal is to ensure that our students are sound in math and literacy and that our schools have some basic consistency nationwide. But the standards do not dictate a national curriculum, and teachers are not told how or what to teach.
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Every day I am inspired by what's possible.
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Holiness grows so fast where there is kindness. The world is lost for want of sweetness and kindness. Do not forget we need each other.
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I'm into books - I love literature, so I toyed with the idea of being an English teacher. I had a fantastic English teacher at school. I think great English teachers make the world go round.
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Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: You can't deceive me. I know your habits, foresee and enjoy watching all your reactions, and steal your secret by involving you in cunning obstructions that halt your normal flow.
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Literature is analysis after the event.
