Doris Lessing Quotes
I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.'
Quotes to Explore
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We must break problems down into small, digestible bits. We must define the concepts that we use and explain what components they consist of. We must tackle small problems.
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I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.
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When I was governor, I was looking for a way to unify our state. I realized music is about the only thing that unifies Tennessee.
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I'm interested not just in projects that I'll be starring in, but producing film and TV that's really quality and great for adults; and when I say 'great for adults,' it doesn't mean without humor, because I'm also interested in doing comedy.
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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
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The simpler I keep things, the better I play.
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When I first started out as a young journalist, I know that on at least two occasions, when I walked into a newsroom, I knew I was replacing the black person in that job.
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When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
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I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.
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Whenever I come across an Arabic word mired in English text, I am momentarily shocked out of the narrative.
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We may have lured judges into roaming at large in the constitutional field.
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'Gravity' is a great example of a movie that we hope they're going to do more of. It's really entertaining, with a female star. It's not the kind of film you typically see, and gives me hope.
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In most movies there is a Prince Charming who rides up and saves the girl.
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The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.
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Foreign politicians don't have resources - or limited resources. It's useless dealing with them.
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When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.
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The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.
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I never understood when people go, 'Oh my gosh, it's so easy being pregnant.' No, it's hard. It's the most beautiful thing, yes, but it's hard.
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Everything is so alive, that I can be alive. Without moving I can see it all. In your life I see everything that lives.
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It was you I thought of all the time, I gave to them the love you did not need: lavished on them a love that was not theirs.
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As long as you're getting along, it's nice to work with someone you know well.
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Whenever I see a Frans Hals, I feel the desire to paint; but when I see a Rembrandt, I want to give it up.
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The idea of making access to safe abortions harder and more expensive and more difficult, having to travel across state lines - that puts women's health and lives in jeopardy, which is something I think no one wants.
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I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.'
