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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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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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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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
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The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.
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Don't take things too seriously, and just chill.
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To be an actress and act crazy is really fun for me, to be able to be acting like you'd never be able to act in your real life and scream and freak out. It's an interesting test for an actor.
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Unless God and His revealed Word is the overarching influencer and rationale over how our electoral decisions are made as believers, then we cannot expect God to be the overarching influencer in our nation.
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It got to be so easy that I was actually disappointed.
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Early on my career, I figured out that I just have to write the book I have to write at that moment. Whatever else is going on in the culture is just not that important. If you could get the culture to write your book, that would be great. But the culture can't write your book.
Colson Whitehead -
I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.'
