Danielle Steel Quotes
My relationships were never equitable. My husbands were always older than me, and they made the rules, they ran the show, and I followed them.
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I find the stuff that is exciting to me are the films coming out of Taiwan and Iran and France. So I have the feeling I'm not making the films that American distributors want to make.
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I think I've gotten more confident because the more you do it and the more shows you play, you just feel more confident. You feel more confident about everything.
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Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.
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A man is what he thinks about all day long.
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It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.
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Just celebrate the life you had, not the life you could've had.
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It's really hard not to fall into that trap of insecurity when you're a model. Beforehand, I never looked at myself in a huge monitor with 30 people around it every day.
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I have been out of drama school for 13 years, so there are 13 years' worth of graduates behind me.
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In South Florida, where there are so many beneficiaries, when Social Security isn't adjusted to reflect their increased costs, that affects their daily lives and their contributions to our local economy.
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So when I was very young, I longed for Brazil.
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There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.
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I'd been a wedding singer through college, but after a few years of doing my best renditions of jazz standards to clinking glasses and the sound of forks on salad, I thought, 'Oh God, if this is all I do, I'll never be able to live with myself.'
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When I started stand-up, the first thing I did was to take an improv class.
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I was obsessed with Lil' Bow Wow growing up, and you couldn't see the white of my walls because they were plastered with his photos. This is even more embarrassing: I had a notebook full of facts about Bow Wow and different pictures. I basically made a biography notebook about him and his life when he was, like, 13.
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There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world, which has to do with how the people are taught about examining their own history. A whole range of stuff has been placed off limits.
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Continua messe senescit ager.
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The mollusk's motto would be: one must live to build one's house, and not build one's house to live in.
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On the third day after someone dies, the soul comes back to settle scores. In my mother's case, this would be the first day of the lunar new year. And because it is the new year, all debts must be paid, or disaster and misfortune will follow.
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Terence McKenna says, "The culture is not your friend." I am not sure we can change this culture. But I think we can rise above it and create a new world. That's why I so deeply believe in alternative spaces. That's why I believe in the power of art and activism.
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I've always been on the side of science that tries to help man. I play an active part with the foundations I'm involved in. Science gives hope.
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'Restoring' is a very arrogant concept. If you're taking a house from 1812, do you restore it to how it looked the day after it was built, or restore it to the way it looked in 1828, or the way it looked in 1872? Do the minimum to stop it from falling apart, and then get away.
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In the business of war, the role of women is really to maintain normalcy and ensure that there is cultural continuity.
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I have been blessed to have experienced so much in my short lifetime.
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My relationships were never equitable. My husbands were always older than me, and they made the rules, they ran the show, and I followed them.
