Doris Lessing Quotes
I was taken around and shown things as a 'useful idiot' … that’s what my role was … I can’t understand why I was so gullible.
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I sort of write onstage. I'll throw an idea out there, like Home Depot, and just start talking about it.
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I prefer drama; I think character-driven drama is my favorite kind of stuff to go watch, and I like being challenged by that kind of stuff in that way.
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
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We were taught manners and we had to do our chores - Katie and I grew up as normal kids.
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It would be nice to be on the charts again, nice to be recognised.
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Whether it's through introduction of the right gut bacteria or direct modification of the genes of cows and pigs, I think we're going to have to introduce something like this into our livestock - a way to consume the methane rather than releasing it.
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There's always the ongoing actor frustration of finding the great role to do next. I don't go to work a lot. I wait as long as I can until the money runs out or a great part comes along.
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This quality, I mean Geoffrey was with me, was very easy doing - he loved me very much, I loved him very much, and we understood each other so well that it was a pleasure to make music.
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I do feel like there's a level of ridiculousness going on in electronic music... It's getting borderline absurd out there.
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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My bag always weighs a ton. I carry my whole bathroom with me. You never know what's going to happen in a day!
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Cerrone, he's a very good Muay Thai guy, very long.
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My cross earrings are a mini statement; I wear them every day! My whole dream is to be iconic, and the way you dress yourself is so important.
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I spent my whole childhood watching open-wheel racing. I spent years going to England and racing open wheel, coming back and racing open wheel. It's been my world for 20 years and beyond that. For almost my whole life, I've been watching it. I watch it and I think I know how to do it.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.
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I'm not stuck in Strikeforce. I'm happy to be with them. It's where I started, and they've been great to me.
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I am undeniably afraid of the dark!
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The police officer's job is to respect the citizens that they are in control of.
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As I see it, if the production of a factory is expanding, and workers are satisfied, it's OK for there to be a disparity. The best paid should be about three times more than the worst paid.
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A lot of the times, if relationships go badly, you concentrate on the negative. But in those situations, there is always a positive outcome that you can learn from. So, I like to concentrate on the lesson and how I can learn from this. I concentrate on me rather than concentrating on the actual situation.
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We are citizens of an age, as well as of a State; and if it is held to be unseemly, or even inadmissable, for a man to cut himself off from the customs and manners of the circle in which he lives, why should it be less of a duty, in the choice of his activity, to submit his decision to the needs and the taste of his century?
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We've got a generation now who were born with semiequality. They don't know how it was before, so they think, this isn't too bad. We're working. We have our attache' cases and our three piece suits. I get very disgusted with the younger generation of women. We had a torch to pass, and they are just sitting there. They don't realize it can be taken away. Things are going to have to get worse before they join in fighting the battle.
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I was taken around and shown things as a 'useful idiot' … that’s what my role was … I can’t understand why I was so gullible.
