Doris Lessing Quotes

The Nobel Prize has been a disturbance at the beginning of October for some years. It would be gratifying to win, but it would be quite an ordeal, too, with all the events which go on for two days. I'd think carefully about what I was doing the day it is announced and maybe not be around, or be around, but elsewhere.

It is well known that the Nobel Committees bring world opinion to a focus, and that fact still further enhances the prestige attaching to the Prizes.

It's true; I'm fascinated by elite groups.

I have now established myself in a most enviable manner. Those who require something of me must seek me out - I remain apart. I work for no one unless he is a high-ranking personality or a friend.

It is the Nobel Prize I want. It's worth $400,000.

The Nobel prize is a fairytale for a week and a nightmare for a year. You can't imagine the pressure to give interviews, to go to book fairs.

The way I see it, the expensive people who get hired when you have money are the fancy people who tell you what you can't do.

I won't lie, I didn't know there was a concert. I've always known about the Nobel Peace Prize and the different prizes given out for science and this and that, but I didn't know there was a concert the day after. When they said, 'You're going to perform in Norway for the Nobel Peace Prize concert,' I was like, 'All right, I'm there.'

At Harvard, people like to impart the idea that you are a mover and shaker.

It's important to keep your power and not give it up.

You can't just decide you want to do this or that. You have to be invited.

I'm not that interested in just being around powerful people for the sake of it.

Directors assume I'm, like, establishment.

Davos is an extravagant bun-fight of the vanities, where the 'haves' gather to strike deals with the 'have-mores.'

The gatekeepers don't control the gates, and the powers that be aren't as powerful.

People buy into my agenda. I don't buy into anyone's agenda.

I don't really like the Oscars; it's a commercial promotional event. It helps immeasurably to sell films, but it's hardly the Nobel prize.

The success of Indian music at the Oscars is a great achievement.

Giving money doesn't make you an insider. If that's considered being an insider, I guess Donald Trump is an insider. That doesn't make sense.

There's plenty of ordinary Nobel laureates.

I would like to say that OVO, me being on OVO, they kinda protect me from the industry, so I'm not around it. I'm not around it unless I choose to be, or unless I ask to be.

The reason why the Democratic Party fell from grace is because they become nothing more than elitist. That was it. Goldman Sachs - that's who they were.

When you come to Juve, it's because you've been chosen.

I got 'Power' on my own through my agent and my team. I didn't know 50 until I got on the show. Because my character is so close to his, we spent a lot of time as friends. But even in that, I didn't really bring up music to him because I saw how everybody else was bringing up music to him.

It is the nature of government and of technology to establish control.