Doris Lessing Quotes
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It's a great time of the year... if you can stand it.
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Fighting, I guess, was never the real reason I read comic books as a kid. The fighting was an important part, an integral part of it; I don't know I would've read it without it.
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The best thing we can do to help small-business owners succeed is cut spending.
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If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.
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Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.
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I'm thrilled I got to work with James Ponsoldt, who is going to make his mark on this industry.
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I don't intend for this to take on a political tone. I'm just here for the drugs.
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I'm about as big a star as the Baha'i faith has got, which is pretty pathetic.
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The whole thing of weight, I guess it's because there is a wider fascination we all have with weight.
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I'm having a really hard time with this retirement thing and not having wrestling.
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It's things I wouldn't normally do in my real life, so when I go to work and get to beat people up and shoot guns and get waterboarded, those are things I find completely interesting.
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For years the Trio did nothing but play for musicians and other hip people. We practically starved to death.
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Alike and Equal are not the same.
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The number of saints in scores, Valiant men, golden their party. Before kings a career of praise, Warriors, no one was before them in demanding. In straits, in expanse, in every need, May they be a city to our body and our soul!
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The teenage female has less demand to perform and more resources to attract love. Her body and mind are more genetic gifts.
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Wer nichts wagt, gerwinnt nichts. Wer nie sein Brot mit Tränen aß,Wer nie die kummervollen NächteAuf seinem Bette weinend saß,Der kennt euch nicht, ihr himmlischen Mächte.
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We need to be thinking about: How do we allow people to ascend the ladder of opportunity, rather than how do we give them everything and keep them dependent.
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It was such a relief to program in user mode for a change. Not having to care about the small stuff is wonderful.
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I have always been a flirt. My mother says whe I was a child, I used to stand outside the house and just smile at everyone who walked by. Like, 'Please take me with you!'
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We Americans are mildly interested, of course, in reading about the discovery of radium by Madame Curie, but what we really yearn to know is the name of the uncommemorated French female who first mixed a sauce bearnaise.
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The big problem for comic art is you don't want to overwork it. If a drawing is overworked it isn't funny. It's the spontaneity that keeps a work fresh and funny. If they can see how hard you work, if they can see the beads of sweat, it's no good. I always try to make it look easy.
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Follow your goals and stay focused, because you really don't have much time.
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I love to take actors to a place where they open a vein. That’s the job. The key is that I make it safe for them to open the vein.
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As soon as I got the Nobel Prize my back collapsed and I was in hospital.
