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I was thrilled to be rehired for the 1919 'Follies.' Mr. Ziegfeld himself hired me. To me, that particular 'Follies' was his greatest 'Follies' of all - not because I was in the show, but because of the great cast and memorable music.


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DORIS LESSING The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.
DORIS DAY In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
DORIS LESSING With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic...
DORIS LESSING Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself
DORIS LESSING What I really can't stand about the feminist revolution is that it produced some of the smuggest...
DORIS LESSING What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need...
DORIS LESSING My father was in the First World War.
DORIS LESSING This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped....
DORIS LESSING What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imaginat...
DORIS LESSING 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 September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Am...
DORIS LESSING 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 You only learn to be a better writer by actually writing
DORIS LESSING The happiest times in my life were the days when I was traveling with Les Brown and his band.
DORIS DAY Time and distance from the first and second world wars doesn't seem to lessen their horrors.
DORIS LESSING You should write, first of all, to please yourself. You shouldn't care a damn about anybody else at ...
DORIS LESSING Loneliness, she thought, was craving for other people's company. But she did not know that lonelines...
DORIS LESSING We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly less stupid than we are to accept truths tha...
DORIS LESSING You and I, Ella, we are the failures. We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more s...
DORIS LESSING