Doris Lessing Quotes

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.

Doris Lessing

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: October 22, 1919 - November 17, 2013

Topics

LifeLearningYouNewUnderstand

To have the chance to see your music be elevated and to have almost universally positive response to that music, makes me feel better every day. I feel more confident and inspired, and that's fun.

John Legend

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I've been acting since I was 9, but in college I entered the drama program, and I didn't excel at it at all, kind of for the first time.

Anna Faris

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I can't wrestle a match without getting my ankles taped because they feel like they'll shatter on me.

Jeff Hardy

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Without a conscious effort, all of my plays have all featured gay characters. I'm proud of that.

Stephen Karam

EffortProudGayWithoutConscious

When I was in my teens and into my early 20s, I had acne. I used to get those big purple jobs, but not a lot of them, thank goodness, because you really couldn't see them in the films that I did.

Rita Moreno

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The Christian image of God is that of a rational being who believes in human progress.

Rodney Stark

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I go, wherever there is my interest, where my heart and feeling take me.

Juergen Teller

HeartMeFeelingGoWhereverTake

I've not really watched too many English films. I've grown up watching Indian cinema, mostly.

Deepika Padukone

CinemaWatchingUpEnglishManyToo

We certainly could have voted on making the middle-class tax cuts and tax cuts for working families permanent had the Republicans not insisted that the only way they would support those tax breaks is if we also added $700 billion to the deficit to give tax breaks to the wealthiest 2 percent of Americans. That's what was really disturbing.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

SupportTaxWayPermanentWorking

We are sick because our cells are sick.

Christian de Duve

SickCellsBecauseOur

I grew up on the precursors to rock and roll, rhythm and blues.

Bobbie Ann Mason

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I like attractive people who aren't so terribly aware that they are attractive... people who aren't afraid to roll on the floor and make fools out of themselves.

Bob Fosse

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