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We had a group picture taken with him and he also did some autographs and George signed an 'Ocean's Eleven' DVD. They're very sociable people.


Doris Pinter

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DORIS ROBERTS Wrinkles are hereditary. Parents get them from their children.
DORIS DAY Any girl can look glamorous .... just stand there and look stupid.
DORIS DAY We were in San Francisco for a long weekend. And we turned on the TV to check the weather — and th...
DORIS DAY And then, not expecting it, you become middle-aged and anonymous. No one notices you. You achieve a ...
DORIS LESSING There is only one real sin, and that is to persuade oneself that the second-best is anything but the...
DORIS LESSING Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fanta...
DORIS LESSING Time Bites: Views and Reviews
DORIS LESSING I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.
DORIS LESSING In the writing process, the more a story cooks, the better.
DORIS LESSING Laughter is by definition healthy
DORIS LESSING What matters most is that we learn from living
DORIS LESSING I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't t...
DORIS LESSING There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.
DORIS LESSING I have found that when you are deeply troubled, there are things you get from the silent devoted com...
DORIS DAY If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of suble...
DORIS LESSING The kitten was six weeks old. It was enchanting, a delicate fairy-tale cat, whose Siamese genes show...
DORIS LESSING Where others might have faltered, you rose to the occasion, ... This is not just my opinion, which I...
DORIS MEISSNER Killing an animal to make a coat is sin. It wasn't meant to be, and we have no right to do it. A wom...
DORIS DAY She spoke on various sides of the issue, ... She spoke about how deeply she cared for the child, how...
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