Doris Lilly quotes

“To make a long story short, there's nothing like having a boss walk in.”
-- Doris Lilly

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“It's intoxicating for a man to be waited on. Combine this with very, very skillful sex, and that will get them.”
-- Doris Lilly

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“Men who wear turtlenecks look like turtles.”
-- Doris Lilly

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“Millionaires are marrying their secretaries because they are so busy making money they haven't time to see other girls.”
-- Doris Lilly

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“Oh, Eeyore, you are wet!” said Piglet, feeling him. Eeyore shook himself, and asked somebody to explain to Piglet what happened when you had been inside a river for quite a long time.”

“When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.”

“The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.”

“It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone.”

“The best thing about writing has been the writer's life, the sense of being expressed, the ownership of the day, the entirely specious sense of freedom we have, however slave we are to some boss or other. I wouldn't trade it for any other life.”

“A decent human being is ashamed at being somebody's boss!”

“If you don't have a sensation of apprehension when you set out to find a story and a swagger when you sit down to write it, you are in the wrong business.”

“STORIES WE TELL is one of the boldest and most exciting films I’ve seen in the last six months, and the kind of experience that has the power to alter your perception of the world.”

“Every shrink knows that it's not the event itself but how you respond to it that tells the story. Take ten assorted individuals, expose them all to the same life trial, and they will each suffuse it with exquisite personal detail and meaning.”

Source : A.S.A. Harrison (2013). “The Silent Wife”, p.240, Hachette UK

“There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.”