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Doris Lessing Quotes

I don't write well when I'm sitting there sweating about every single phrase.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Sitting Write Single Well Sweating

What's the point of doing a brilliant Hedda Gabler in my back garden if no one will ever see it?

Doing Back Garden Will Brilliant

To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.

Blind Bear Miserable Blindness Able

I like making money, but it's a scorecard. I'm not driven by that.

Money Making Money Driven Like

Financial inclusion matters not only because it promotes growth, but because it helps ensure prosperity is widely shared. Access to financial services plays a critical role in lifting people out of poverty, in empowering women, and in helping governments deliver services to their people.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Growth Women People Financial Out

In the late '90s, the magazine formerly known as 'The Wizard' came after me strong and hard. I was the brunt of jokes for an entire staff of angry fanboys; as much as can be poured on was poured on. But I kept focus, as anyone in that situation should.

Focus Angry Me Strong Situation

I wasn't entitled to dream so big. The idea of me being a writer wasn't even possible in my mind. Even when I began to write and first published, I couldn't call myself a writer.

Myself Mind Me Dream Possible First

I think women should band together to get us more respect in all the businesses that we're in because, you know, if we turn 40, we're nothing and nobody. We all should band together and just say we're not gonna go down like that.

Women Respect Together Think You Go

About once a decade, it becomes necessary to remind Americans again that Ulysses S. Grant was a great man, indeed a giant figure. The usual way to try to do this is by publishing a thumping big biography, and let me say that there is nothing wrong with this, although it still hasn't worked.

Great Man Me Great Man Wrong Say

Some people are desperately looking for scapegoats, they just don't want to see the truth!

Truth People Looking Want See Just

It's not easy to teach a child how to win.

Dikembe Mutombo

Child Win Easy Teach How

I do a lot of collaborations and productions, whether it's Switch or Steve Aoki or No ID or Will Smith or No Doubt - I always like to collaborate and be a quality control person for the people 'cause I have my own taste in music and bring that to other peoples' brands and help them learn a little bit.

Music Quality People Control Help

I'm not getting frustrated... we all knew from the start that this would be a long process.

Start Process Long Would Knew

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