Doris Lessing Quotes

I've worked hard all my life. You have to if you want to get things done.

Doris Lessing

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeMy LifeYouDoneWantHard

People inspire me. Every day, I meet amazing individuals in the field. When I see a mother who has walked for three weeks to come to a MSF clinic, with two kids on her back and her belongings on her head, facing intimidation and physical abuse on her way, I am inspired by her resilience - her desire for life.

Joanne Liu

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I agreed to go on a date with a nice young man who was a former student of my uncle, who taught music in high schools and colleges. The nice young man took me to a party at his sister's, where I met people who introduced me to virtually all the elements of my future.

Jody Lynn Nye

FutureMusicManPeopleMeSister

What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player.

John Wooden

BasketballYouPersonImportantMore

The photograph of the Queen sitting stiffly across the table from Glasgow resident Susan McCarron is so natural and expressive that it looks utterly fake. It looks like an artist's portrait, complete with symbolism, humour and poignancy. No wonder the palace and the press have interpreted it in such different ways.

Amanda Foreman

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My philosophy is that I'm an artist. I perform an art not with a paint brush or a camera. I perform with bodily movement. Instead of exhibiting my art in a museum or a book or on canvas, I exhibit my art in front of the multitudes.

Steve Prefontaine

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One of the finest statesmen of the present time is also a first-class scout, and that is Mr. Roosevelt, the late President of the United States of America.

Robert Baden-Powell

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I was surrounded by music in my family, surrounded by people who sang songs - every single person I knew as a child growing up had one, two, three songs they knew from start to finish.

Roisin Murphy

FamilyMusicChildPeopleGrowing Up

Shot glasses make me think of youth and a mode of drinking and living that was never mine, even when I was the age for it.

Rumaan Alam

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Celebrity is a weird appendage, which is useless unless you do something with it.

Minnie Driver

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I am also working on a couple of short stories for anthologies. This is new to me and I'm enjoying it.

Judith Guest

I AmMeShortNewWorkingStories

Eighteen months before I was born, my mother was in Auschwitz. She weighed 49 pounds. She always told me that God saved her so she could give me life. I was born out of nothing.

Diane von Furstenberg

LifeMotherGodMeBornNothing

We Facebook users have been building a treasure lode of big data that government and corporate researchers have been mining to predict and influence what we buy and for whom we vote. We have been handing over to them vast quantities of information about ourselves and our friends, loved ones and acquaintances.

Douglas Rushkoff

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