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Doris Lessing Quotes

I'm not one of those writers that sits worrying about posthumous fame.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Fame Worrying Those About Writers

Koons's work has always stood apart for its one-at-a-time perfection, epic theatricality, a corrupted, almost sick drive for purification, and an obsession with traditional artistic values.

Work Perfection Drive Sick Values

I was an unhappy child, and that puts me off having a child of my own.

Child Me Unhappy My Own Own Off

Once you discover that real pirates are more interesting than fictional ones, you can't look away.

Interesting You Look More Real Away

London has a very specific kind of style; it's very different to Milan, Paris, and New York. It's nice having that personality that we haven't lost. It's the English quirky style that people like to see when they come to Fashion Week.

Matthew Williamson

Style Personality New York People

I know a lot of actors talk about the importance of wardrobe, and it always seems like it's kind of a cop-out, maybe, because it seems like a minor detail to some people. But I think it's hugely important.

People Detail Think Know Important

I have been lucky with writers. None have been real trouble. Some I never met. Some I meet only after the book is finished, and some, the easiest to get along with, are the dead ones. Most become friends.

Michael Foreman

Book Friends Trouble Meet Become

I grew up in Columbus, Indiana, a kind of industrial and farmland place.

Stephen Sprouse

Place Kind Up Industrial Indiana

It's nice when people say, 'God, I've been listening to you since 1963 or 1985, or whatever.' I appreciate anybody who goes out and buys music these days.

Loudon Wainwright III

Music God People Listening You Nice

Everyone is not able, or inclined, to write poetry in the narrower sense any more than everyone is qualified to take part in a walking race. But just as all of us can and do walk, so all of us can and do use language poetically.

Walk Poetry Language Walking Race

Everything I've wanted to turn into a film becomes something new and different when it becomes a movie... Each time I work with an author, I say to them, 'A book and a movie are different things.'

Work Time Book New Say Turn

Bad people are intriguing!

People Bad People Bad Intriguing

History does influence our lives - every moment. We never sort of live our lives in a linear fashion. We always have these memories and these images from our past that sometimes we're not even aware of, and they sort of shape who we are.

Live Memories History Moment Past

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