Doris Lessing Quotes
There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't.
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The best relationship is one that does not foster too much independence nor too much dependence, but exists in the healthy interdependence zone.
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My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!
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Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.
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I really like 'Roar' and 'Dark Horse.' 'Dark Horse' I really like, and I feel I would sing that in the bathroom; I would buy that album, and I think Katy Perry's amazing!
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I have to protect myself because people think that because you come into 25 million homes every week, they know you. I walk the line between being gracious and being rude.
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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
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I wouldn't just have other people write songs and me go out and sing it. I would sit down with a guitar and write 11 or 12 good songs for an album and that is gonna take a long time.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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I don't know that on-demand sports is remarkably better than live sports.
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Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.
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No, I worked a lot for European television, doing documentaries in Brazil.
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In the year 3000, everything will be instant.
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Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.
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In the past, human society provided encouragement and opportunity for people to extend support to each other, especially in highly stressful situations.
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If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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I find that the time that goes by is actually your best friend when you are making a record. The passing of time gives you perspective on what you recorded and what you wrote. If something sounds good to you 12 months after you recorded it then chances are pretty good that there's something valuable about the part or the song.
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I dropped out of Oxford, and now I only speak Russian with the woman who gives me a bikini-wax. See what Hollywood does to you?
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Depeche Mode have never got over their teenage awkwardness with each other. We're still like that. Mates but not mates. That awkwardness is there, only now we have families and kids.
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The idea of personal salvation is intensely repugnant to me when it is not absurd. Imagine Roosevelt, the big brute, preserving his personality in a future state and swaggering about as a celestial Rough Rider!
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I don't think most people understand acting, even the people who call themselves savvy, even actors.
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I believe that there is no God. I'm beyond atheism. Atheism is not believing in God. Not believing in God is easy - you can't prove a negative, so there's no work to do
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Everyone knows I'm black. I am who I am. This is the person that Lester Sr. and June Holt raised, and I make no apology for it. At the same time, I'm never going to pull a race card to get what I want. You can't have it both ways.
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There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't.
