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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Practicing love is a difficult thing to do. It's much easier to get angry.
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When my dad went to college to get his master's from Loyola, he was playing Debussy and Chopin and Beethoven. But he played all that New Orleans stuff, too. I would go with my dad to gigs, pick up the piano and the speakers, and I would be like his roadie.
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Gratitude connects us to others and feeling gratitude allows us to be our best selves. When we are truly grateful, we can count on living the life we want
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Beyonce may be a gifted entertainer, but no one should really care what she thinks about any serious issue confronting our nation.
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When I was at 'SNL,' I would constantly get in arguments, 'Why aren't we more political? We're not going after Bush.' Then look what happened - that Sarah Palin season, they were on fire. It was about something.
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God knows why nobody ever learns from the preceding generation - but they don't.
