Doris Lessing
Related GEORGE R. R. MARTIN C. JOYBELL C. NICHOLAS SPARKS CLIVE BARKER BRUCE FEIRSTEIN To stand on theASK AND IT IS GIVEN That larger story in 'Salvage the Bones' is just about survival, and I think that, in the en... JESMYN WARD I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES The Beatles' story is all of our stories, BOB SPITZ Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM The empathy I found reading 'Heidi' and 'Little Women' is empathy we have as human b... JEWELL PARKER RHODES At first, I did have that thought, like, 'Oh crap, what are we going to do after?' Then I re... MADISON MARLOW ALICE MUNRO PATRICK ROTHFUSS The problem with generalizations and judgments, the words we hurl as insults, is that they deny our ... MARTI NOXON LOIS LOWRY LEMONY SNICKET ARTHUR MILLER We all tell our own stories the way we live our lives. My story is: Life is too short to not believe... KEVIN MCCOLLUM All we are, all we can be, are the stories we tell," he says, and he is talking as if he is talking ... NORA RALEIGH BASKIN I grew up in Sierra Leone, in a small village where as a boy my imagination was sparked by the oral ... ISHMAEL BEAH GEORGE R.R. MARTIN In the end we are all separate: our stories, no matter how similar, come to a fork and diverge. We a... PROVERB His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING You know... we all have stories. We all have unique experiences that make each and everyone of us di... G. BRIAN BENSON I don't know of anybody's political bias at CBS News. We try very hard to get any opinion that we ha... LESLEY STAHL PATRICK ROTHFUSS 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON It's a really important thing for Aboriginal people to remember how stories are told and the pow... ALEXIS WRIGHT Everything we are is anchored in our childhoods. The drama comes in how we deal with it. Are we slav... ROBERT CRAIS AARON STANFORD I can't write my life story without Emmitt and Troy. They can't write their life stories wit... MICHAEL IRVIN RUMI FRANK DELANEY MIKE COLTER AMITABH BACHCHAN Stories nurture our connection to place and to each other. They show us where we have been and where... SUSAN J. TWEIT First of all, tabloid stories are some of the richest and most important stories that we have. There... ERROL MORRIS Everyone has a story. It is what defines us. Our stories continue to change as we evolve in-and-out ... BRANDON GARIC NOTCH There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one ... SEAN LENNON It was definitely a part of our life. I mean, my mom had both her brothers and her fiancee in Vietna... VANESSA KERRY The Beatles' story is all of our stories. It is about how the youth culture emerged, the drug cu... BOB SPITZ JEFF ZUCKER MAEVE BINCHY JEANETTE CORON STEVEN STRAIT It was amazing how our minds crafted stories for strangers who probably needed love more than our cl... BRITTAINY C. CHERRY I think we do have our true, original stories that work. I can tell you that 'The King's Spe... HARVEY WEINSTEIN It is really important to tell the stories so we can see how unique they can be ... bringing (storie... ELEN SEMRAN ANATOLE BROYARD Toy is talking and this is why I love her. She can go on about herself ceaselessly and like the scra... ERICA LORRAINE SCHEIDT We are essentially in the business of telling stories. We would like to think that most of our stori... BRYANT GUMBEL REBECCA SOLNIT MICHAEL MORPURGO LAUREN MYRACLE JAMES PATTERSON TONI CADE BAMBARA Denver's commitment to giving contemporary storytellers the stage is crucial to the American the... THERESA REBECK ANNA DEAVERE SMITH BEN OKRI GRAHAM MOORE KAREN ARMSTRONG It's like we want the audience to travel with us as we tell our stories. I think of it as a musical;... JUANITA CRIDER KATE DICAMILLO When we believe in our thoughts, when we tell ourselves a story, we suffer. 'My husband doesn... BYRON KATIE ANITA SARKEESIAN ROGER MCGUINN Film is our literature, so we should tell stories that are apropos of our culture, in that we can le... DAVID STRATHAIRN There are a lot of different stories, but there are a lot of stories that our audience will be able ... LILY NEUMEYER We all know that Social Security is one of this country's greatest success stories in the 20th c... MITCH MCCONNELL The way that a handful of corporations in Los Angeles dictate how our stories are told creates a rea... ALEX COX GRAY SCOTT The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the... MICHAEL HARRIS CRAIG GROESCHEL DOUGLAS COUPLAND We tell stories to talk out the trouble in our lives, trouble otherwise so often so unspeakable. It ... WILLIAM KITTREDGE LORETTA LYNCH MEG CABOT KATE FORSYTH One of our efforts in doing a lot of Shakespeare is, the more we do it, the more proficient our stud... JACK CIRILLO MORTIMER ADLER AMY BLOOM In America, we have so many movies and so much media about the Islamic world, the sub-continental wo... MIRA NAIR We can't compare stories. We can only know in our hearts that we are the same. That may be the b... BETTY BUCKLEY We're all going to keep telling love stories, we're all going to tell hero stories. It's... ANDREW STANTON Storytelling is storytelling. Good stories need compelling characters and interesting conflicts. Tha... D. J. MACHALE MATT GROENING We have built our identities in many respects based on the guilt-ridden stories we have been told ab... GIOCONDA BELLI NATHAN MYHRVOLD ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH CHARLIE KAUFMAN JOHN MARSDEN CUBA GOODING, JR. You can take any one of our stories that we use right now, put western clothes on us, stick us out i... MAJEL BARRETT When he entered the anteroom, two women looked up at him. One was Miss Robertson, the governor's sec... GEORGE P. ELLIOTT ALAN RICKMAN It's about the power of stories. It's through our stories that we come to know each other and share ... FAYANNE HAYES A necessary part of our intelligence is on the line as the oral tradition becomes less and less impo... WES JACKSON I feel like 'Beware' is a heartfelt song - it's something that is definitely a story, so... BIG SEAN Beckett's 'Stories and Texts for Nothing' is probably my favorite book. FRANZ WRIGHT
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DORRIS LESSING Laughter is by definition healthy. DORRIS LESSING GOTTHOLD LESSING GOTTHOLD LESSING GOTTHOLD LESSING DORIS DAY DORIS DAY DORIS MORTMAN DORIS MORTMAN DORIS EGAN DORIS EGAN DORIS DAY DORIS DAY DORIS DAY DORIS DAY DORIS DAY DORIS DAY DORIS DAY DORIS DAY DORIS DAY People will be able to actually walk where the villagers walked and explore the mound. DORIS ANDERSON If they see it, and feel it in a hands-on way, that makes it fun for them. DORIS ANDERSON One of the big hurdles to overcome is kids attitude toward science. Some kids think science is borin... DORIS ANDERSON It's a very high-energy activity. It's a workout. By the time you finish class, you're tired. DORIS ANDERSON DORIS DAY DORIS DAY It is occasionally possible to charge Hell with a bucket of water, but against stupidity the gods th... DORIS FLEESON The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any o... DORIS HUMPHREY The kitchen table is where we mark milestones, divulge dreams, bury hatchets, make deals, give thank... DORIS CHRISTOPHER There are movements which impinge upon the nerves with a strength that is incomparable, for movement... DORIS HUMPHREY DORIS DAY DORIS DAY That is not an option I'm prepared to entertain, ... There is no place for an arbitration panel. DORIS MEISSNER To make a long story short, there's nothing like having a boss walk in. DORIS LILLY Men who wear turtlenecks look like turtles. DORIS LILLY He demolished people . . . . You either loved him or you hated him, but there was no one remotely li... DORIS LILLY Millionaires are marrying their secretaries because they are so busy making money they haven't time ... DORIS LILLY To make a long story short, there's nothing like having a boss walk in. DORIS LILLY DORIS DAY DORIS DAY DORIS DAY DORIS DAY The idea of building a Near Eastern house in Honolulu must seem fantastic to many. 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DORIS MEISSNER found the family functioning very well as a family. DORIS MEISSNER They need more space and they need more privacy. DORIS MEISSNER held in virtual slavery. DORIS MEISSNER The arguments for better immigration enforcement and controls are perfectly legitimate, and obviousl... DORIS MEISSNER have basically used the legal migration system to their advantage. DORIS MEISSNER The longer we do it, the bigger it grows. DORIS MARSHALL Our aids are very committed to serving their customers. Money may be a concern but they continue to ... DORIS MARSHALL Our budget is really tight but we will continue to explore (increasing reimbursement), but I don't k... DORIS MARSHALL I live in a neighborhood, but all the houses are different. There are a lot of different sizes and d... DORIS LEADBETTER I think Great Falls is an anomaly because there are so many different types of houses. It's not like... DORIS LEADBETTER It's released by the pituitary gland, and it's released by both sexes. 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Nobody is a villain in their own story. We're all the heroes of our own stories. 
Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... 
Our story has three parts: a beginning, a middle, and an end. And although this is the way all stori... 
I am a man, and men are animals who tell stories. This is a gift from God, who spoke our species int... 
The great thing about games is that it's tremendously collaborative, and it opens you up to this... 
Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat differ... 
Humans are kind of story-propagating creatures. If you think of how we spend our days, think of all ... 
He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself 
In any case, this is how all our stories begin, in darkness with our eyes closed, and all our storie... 
It is a lie. 
Nobody is a villain in their own story. We're all the heroes of our own stories. 
Actors, we like stories, we like storytelling, we love being a part of the story, and if you give us... 
We are born of love; Love is our mother. 
To understand and reconnect with our stories, the stories of the ancestors, is to build our identiti... 
Marvel does a fantastic job about bringing human stories - because you're telling big stories wi... 
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We are all the heroes and heroines of our own lives. Our love stories are amazingly romantic; our lo... 
The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a... 
With '10,000,' our aim was to make a film that was entertaining and a roller-coaster ride; i... 
The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momen... 
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Perhaps it is partly that we need to love books ourselves as parents, grandparents and teachers in o... 
Mother Superior jump the gun...
My style is colloquial storytelling. It's the way we tell stories to one another - it's not ... 
Our lives preserved. How it was; and how it be. Passing it along in the relay. That is what I work t... 
President Obama called for a 'we' nation in his Inauguration Address. Art convenes. It is no... 
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That's one of the things I like best about folk music is the beautiful melodies - and the harmon... 
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We live aware of God moment by moment. He is not part of our lives; He is our life. 
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The good in this world far outweighs the evil. Our common humanity transcends our differences, and o... 
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We love even when our love is not requited. 
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The end is the matter! A step to the end is a factor! 
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So I found myself telling my own stories. It was strange: as I did it I realised how much we get sha... 
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A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer. 
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Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have. 
Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have. -Doris Mortman. 
You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic. 
It was the only ambition I ever had - not to be a dancer or Hollywood movie star, but to be a housew... 
Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty. 