Doris Lessing Quotes
You should write, first of all, to please yourself. You shouldn't care a damn about anybody else at all. But writing can't be a way of life; the important part of writing is living. You have to live in such a way that your writing emerges from it.Doris Lessing
Quotes to Explore
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
Tamae Watanabe -
I always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me.
Carlos Ghosn -
I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
Vera Wang -
If I were president, I am not sure that I would offer Ed Rendell the job of chief of staff.
Ed Rendell -
The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.
Jack Nicklaus -
I just don't think men fancy me.
Gail Porter
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Bruckner's Eighth is a colossus.
Zubin Mehta -
I'm a conservative Republican, small-business guy, married to same gal - love of my life - for 36 years. Strong family man, deacon at my church; I believe in America. I know government is not the answer; individual liberty and personal responsibility is the answer.
Randy Weber -
Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
Lady Gaga -
Also, I walk and hike in several different nearby parks near our home several early mornings a week.
Malcolm Boyd -
Trent likes to record guitars direct, whereas I've always preferred playing through an amplifier.
Daisy Berkowitz
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The money I earn from films means I can help the people I want to help - you can do a lot of good if you want to.
Viggo Mortensen -
I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
Baz Luhrmann -
You don't get second chances in the real world.
Gail Simmons -
Jadakiss is not no walk in no park. Nas is not no walk in no park. These are dudes that could have ended my career.
Beanie Sigel -
You can lead a horse to water and you can even make it drink, but you can't make actresses wear what they don't want to wear.
Edith Head -
I stay excited 'cause for me, this is something I love to do. I'm like Coca Cola with it. I been here for a long time, I just gotta keep it nice and stay up to date and also give them that quality taste that they been looking for. It's nothing to me. When you built for it, you born for it, you do it cuz you wanna do it, not cuz you have to.
Raekwon
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Life is full of joys and sorrows, much of it our own making. Sadly, the West has voted time and time again for bigger government, more inflation, higher taxes and excessive regulation - all policies that have kept us from Adam Smith's vision of an opulent society.
Mark Skousen -
I'm not great at bedtime stories. Bedtime stories are supposed to put the kid to sleep. My kid gets riled up and then my wife has to come in and go, 'All right! Get out of the room.'
Adam Sandler -
It is your birthright to discover your sacred contract. It will guide you to find your divine destiny.
Caroline Myss -
Writing 'Men We Reaped' broke me in different ways at different spots in the drafting process. The first draft was hard because I was just getting it out. In some ways, that draft failed. I was really just telling the story, not making assessments - this happened, then this. Just putting those facts down on paper was really painful.
Jesmyn Ward -
I think perhaps love thrives on unlikely circumstance and chanceĀ : life thrives on these principles, and is life not love? And love not life?
Brandon Boyd Incubus -
You should write, first of all, to please yourself. You shouldn't care a damn about anybody else at all. But writing can't be a way of life; the important part of writing is living. You have to live in such a way that your writing emerges from it.
Doris Lessing