Doris Lessing Quotes

You should write, first of all, to please yourself. You shouldn't care a damn about anybody else at all. But writing can't be a way of life; the important part of writing is living. You have to live in such a way that your writing emerges from it.

Doris Lessing

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeLiveYourselfWritingCareYou

Pixar is going in the direction of the early Disney. And it's also corporate, where they have four or five projects in the works. I don't want to get into that subject.

Joe Grant

DirectionEarlyWantGoingGetFour

When I worked in the Obama White House, people in national security positions had been uneasy making broad public arguments, particularly about political matters.

Jennifer Palmieri

PeoplePoliticalHouseSecurityBeen

I don't think it is given to any of us to be impertinent to great religions with impunity.

John le Carre

GreatThinkReligionsUsGivenAny

You know, we lose more homes every year to flooding than we do any other event in America.

Russel Honore

AmericaYearYouLoseKnowMore

I love to take actors to a place where they open a vein. That's the job. The key is that I make it safe for them to open the vein.

Mike Nichols

LoveJobKeyPlaceOpenSafe

Age and size are only numbers. It's the attitude you bring to clothes that make the difference.

Donna Karan

AttitudeAgeClothesYouNumbers

If you foul up, tell the President and correct it fast. Delay only compounds mistakes.

Donald Rumsfeld

MistakesYouFastPresidentTellUp

Jeremiah is a most melancholy prophet. He wails from beginning to end; he is often childish, is rarely indecent, and although it may be blasphemy to say so, he and his 'Lamentations' are really not worth reading.

Annie Besant

BeginningReadingEndWorthSayMay

Has it ever happened to you that you actually like a rogue more than a so-called honest citizen? Have you ever wondered why? I believe that this can only be so because a rogue is more original and more his own. He is what he is.

Alija Izetbegovic

BelieveYouCitizenWhyI Believe

I like the big smoky eyes look, and I always do my eyes first when I'm putting on my make-up.

Pixie Lott

EyesLookFirstAlwaysBigSmoky

Drumming is my middle name.

Ringo Starr

NameDrummingMiddle

The practical core of democracy, defined functionally, is the peaceful exchange of power between different groups of powerful political players arranged in parties.

Noah Feldman

PowerDemocracyPoliticalPowerful

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