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Doris Lessing Quotes

For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Life Work Alone Always Last Only

In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part of our noble forests.

John James Audubon

Myself Me Deepest Noble Retire Some

Liberal soccer moms are precisely as likely to receive anthrax in the mail as to develop a capacity for linear thinking.

Thinking Soccer Mail Liberal Develop

Anything that gets in the way of my focus to create gets cut out of my life. It's not easy. Sometimes it's family. Sometimes it's friends. Sometimes it's the ability to have a relationship.

Life Family Relationship Focus Easy

Nobody - myself included - believes that we could ever achieve total information awareness. But the government needs to set goals and long-range objectives. Total information awareness is a good goal.

John Poindexter

Good Goals Myself Government Goal

I had mentors, growing up in gay life - older gay men who told me about our history and the history of art and culture - but somehow, the younger generation missed out on that synergy.

Life History Art Culture Men Me

Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

People Problems Care You Tell Your

Comedy writing is taking the brief thought and going with it.

Writing Thought Comedy Going Taking

It's not just music. To me, it's songwriting more than anything. A lot of people say it's expression, but to me, it's more than that.

Brantley Gilbert

Music People Me Say Songwriting

When people ask what it's like to be an only child, I say it depends on who your parents are. I was lucky.

Brett Kavanaugh

Child Parents People Say Lucky Ask

We were in Philadelphia when Manager Pat shifted me from third to short, and right off the bat, I knew I had found my dish. Footwork was more a part of the new position than it had been at third. I suddenly felt I had sprouted wings. A world of new possibilities opened for me.

Me World Short Possibilities Wings

When you go into something like a space movie, you think there's going to be no music or little music.

Music Space Think You Go Little

So I kind of lost track for a while, then I came back, I pulled myself together and I decided when I was 15 that I'm going to get sober and I'm going to become an actress.

Myself Together Back Lost Kind Get

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