Doris Lessing Quotes
I was writing all my childhood. And I wrote two novels when I was 17, which were terrible. And I'm not sorry I threw them out. So, I wrote. I had to write. You know, the thing was, I had no education.Doris Lessing
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Is there any more encouraging sign than to see an Indian, who has never been to a university, like our friend Mr. Asutosh Dey here, for example, carrying out original work and finding it recognized by the foremost societies of the world?
C. V. Raman -
In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.
Edmund White -
I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
Warren Farrell -
I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.
Mandy Patinkin -
I made sacrifices willingly; it was what I did best.
Karen McCarthy -
I've been watching 'The Cosby Show' and 'Roseanne' a lot right now, and those work so well because they're not, like, jokey comedies; they are coming from real characters. We want our show to be like that. A family show.
Abbi Jacobson
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I am not a prisoner of conscious, but people try to make me one sometimes. It is both a gift and a curse. It's a high honour but can create limitations - I have to be fluid.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
Maajid Nawaz -
I grew up in uptown Jamaica; I went to a rich school. I was raised by my mother and my stepfather; they made sure education came before anything. I had a good childhood, grew up spending time with my bigger brothers and sisters. My people are good people. I was exposed to a lot of different kinds of people and culture.
Damian Marley -
By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
Eamon de Valera -
I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
Barbara Walters -
Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
Adam McKay
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I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.
Larry Niven -
People often ask me whether I believe in God. I haven't seen God. But I think that one's beliefs are one's God - and, in those terms, yes, God is there.
Kapil Dev -
Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.
Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy -
I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don't need any spoiling or looking after.
Karl Pilkington -
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery.
Don DeLillo -
I really detest brunch. I think it's a waste of a good day. Detest is a little too severe, but I would say I'm not a brunch person.
Cynthia Rowley -
When the movie starts playing on TV and DVD, that's when you really see what the movie is.
Adam McKay -
Everything in adulthood can be traced back to childhood.
Penny Junor -
Acting and writing are the things I like doing. I don't like presenting that much.
Ben Miller -
I was writing all my childhood. And I wrote two novels when I was 17, which were terrible. And I'm not sorry I threw them out. So, I wrote. I had to write. You know, the thing was, I had no education.
Doris Lessing