Doris Lessing Quotes
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I was blacklisted because of this activity, so I'm not a typical anything.
Karen Morley -
I like Dolce & Gabbana's fragrance Light Blue - it's my everyday perfume.
Natasha Poly -
People more than ever since I can remember are concerned about being out of step and out of line with their political party and won't cross over. There is nobody, man or woman, who wants to be left out, and people are fearful of that. People are fearful of their leadership as well.
Gary Ackerman -
I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
Sallust -
One of the most interesting things about science fiction and fantasy is the way that the genres can offer different perspectives on matters to do with the body, the mind, medical technology, and the way we live our lives.
Tansy Rayner Roberts
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The only morality I'm interested in is the morality between your ears, between each player's ears, because that's the interesting thing to me.
Warren Spector -
I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
Mads Mikkelsen -
San Francisco, coolest place ever.
Imogen Poots -
Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
Washington Irving -
It's interesting because I think class is a heavy, heavy part of 'Moonlight,' and I think, in a certain way, through the sum of all these parts, it's become a commentary on the black experience in America.
Barry Jenkins -
There are millions of people who consume music illegally every month. Just getting them into a legal service will make the music industry way bigger than it's ever been before.
Daniel Ek
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It's a great beauty tip, if you ever want to look five years younger, to shave off your eyebrows. It's amazing what it does. It really shaves off the years.
Malin Akerman -
I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.
Salman Rushdie -
Some children are tackling tough times without the support that can help them because the adults in their life are scared to ask.
Kate Middleton -
I moved when I was 16. I had no clue what to expect in moving to L.A. I had no clue, really, about what acting was. I just knew that I wanted to do it.
Haley Lu Richardson -
I have a very short attention span.
Frances McDormand -
I know that I cannot be with a person for three hours without saying at least ten things that would kill me.
Lars von Trier
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When I don't have a good time making music, I think of quitting a lot. I really do. I can create something else. I'll do something else.
Danger Mouse -
There's the tradition of the 19th-century ballets, and the 20th century has had a difficult time with that tradition. And it's had a difficult time with many components of the Romantic imagination because of modernism.
Twyla Tharp -
Humans are not the fastest or the strongest animals on the planet, but when it comes to survival, we have had the unique advantage of being clever.
David Perlmutter -
I was a war correspondent and journalist for a long time, and I was very near the towers on 9/11 and very shortly after in Afghanistan.
Peter Landesman -
It'a an immense joy to be here today. I have received from millions of male and female Brazilians the most important mission of my life. This fact, beyond myself, is a demonstration of the democratic development of our country because for the first time a woman will rule Brazil.
Dilma Rousseff -
If you are a young writer today, it's very hard.
Doris Lessing