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Doris Lessing Quotes

I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.'

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Success Book Process Nothing Whole

I was in Japan, and my assistant director had worked with Kurosawa. I used quite of number of Kurosawa's crew.

Director Used Assistant Japan Crew

Radio, newspapers, they were normal parts of my life. In those days, you had to go somewhere to watch television and leave something to see it.

Life My Life You Television Go See

Of course it's an honour to be fighting at UFC 100, but I don't sit back and think about that. For me, it is only ever about winning.

Michael Bisping

Me Winning Think Fighting Back Sit

Rich kids gave us their old clothes. They were the best clothes we ever had. We were these very pure, naive, poor children. The rich kids called us a lot of names but it never bothered us because we didn't know what the words meant.

Children Best Words Rich Clothes

I'm a Gemini, so I have a great time with the other guy.

Great Time Gemini Great Time Guy

I grew up under the spell of London. Illustrator Kerry Lee's evocative 1950 wall map of the city hung above our breakfast table at home in Canada. Over my corn flakes, I traced the capital's high roads and medieval alleys.

Home Roads City Breakfast Wall Map

It's a truism that you can investigate anything forever.

You Anything Forever Investigate

You'd be surprised how many fans I think are from 'The Bachelorette' will come up and say something about football.

Football Think You Say Will Fans

Growing up, Paul Newman seemed like the ultimate manly actor. And then, I got to work with him and we became friends, so that was nice.

Dermot Mulroney

Work Growing Up Friends Growing Nice

There was a big horror boom in the '80s, and I liked its originality and what you could get away with.

You Horror Originality Big Away Get

I'm not being presumptuous, I hope, when I say that 'The Crown' is little bit like 'The Godfather.' It is essentially about a family in power and survival.

Family Hope Power Survival Crown

A short, glorious life in service of a greater good - say, the life of the Spartans at Thermopylae, or the pilots in the Battle of Britain, of whom Winston Churchill said 'Never have so many owed so much to so few,' - that is worth praising. But for glory alone? I think not.

Life Good Alone Service Think Short

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