Doris Lessing Quotes
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Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle.
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The horror genre is not my favorite. I think it's fun, there's a great place for it and I get a kick out of it, but some stuff I'm too old for. You can't just take 10 guys and stick them in a cabin and off them one at a time - I'm not vested.
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Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere.
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The thing is, people can't complain about profit-oriented moves if they're only interested in profit themselves. You can't have it both ways. If they're willing to polish up a gift and sell it to make money, they can't really complain about the fact that somebody above them has sold them down the river. That's the way it goes.
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I think Hillary Clinton is a good and effective secretary of state.
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I had a long period of writing what I think of as 'save the world' novels. 'Fledgling' was a chance to play.
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The only positive finding which could be drawn from the first series, was the conclusion that the relationships obviously had a more complicated lay-out than had been thought, for the effects were so varied that no obedience to any law could be discovered.
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I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.
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Women view men like houses. They look for fixer-uppers.
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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I only made $200 a week and I had to buy my own bullets.
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There are constant challenges in the drawing process, especially in a period piece, and therein lay the fun.
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When I started playing in bands, we had to be apologetic for what we did. We had to be apologetic because the mainstream was so bad.
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Bitcoin's got its issues. But it is not competing with perfection.
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I never wanted to write. I just wrote letters home from a kibbutz in Israel to reassure my parents that I was still alive and well fed and having a great time. They thought these letters were brilliant and sent them to a newspaper. So I became a writer by accident.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.
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When I run - as you see from my record - I run to win.
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For the wretched one night is like a thousand; for someone faring well death is just one more night.
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You don't get a standing ovation and get boos, by the way. They don't go hand in hand.
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As an action director, I always try to bring something fresh and new.
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Churches that should be talking about the work of Christ on the cross and the grace of God for sinners are stuck on recycled pop psychology, moral exhortation, or entertainment. But these fail to speak to the eternal question that haunts all of us: 'How do I know that I'm OK?' We all want to know we are justified.
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No one told Miles Davis or BB King to pack it in. John Lee Hooker played literally up to the day he died. Why should pop musicians be any different?
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God knows why nobody ever learns from the preceding generation - but they don't.
