Dawn Steel Quotes
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In some ways I was curt because there's an unbelievable amount to accomplish in a day.
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It wasn't until I saw 'Rocky' that I realized movies could affect people beyond mere entertainment.
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If the doors are going to close on me, it's a little late.
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Some friends of mine had parents who made school a treat, a gift - not something to be endured.
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It's unfathomable how you live without your mother.
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That's my proudest accomplishment: that I don't feel like a grown-up.
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I was so busy climbing up this ladder, staying above the water. If there was only room for one woman in a room, I wanted to be her. I'm not proud of it. I certainly don't feel that way now. It was an absolute evolution for me.
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The men I worked for didn't look at me as having any gender at all. They regarded me more as a workhorse.
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We manufacture a culture in the movie business, and whatever we put out creates a dark side and a bright side, too.
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If I can do it, anyone can do it.
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We have to make some movies we have passion for, respect for.
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Historically, Vietnam movies have been profitable. All of them. 'Platoon,' 'Full Metal Jacket,' 'Apocalypse Now,' 'The Deer Hunter.' You're looking at movies that have been not pretty successful, but very successful. The foreign numbers have been extraordinary.
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Foreign revenues are tremendously important, but foreign audiences are dying for American movies, not for films they could make themselves.
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I have to tell you, I'm a great teacher. Ask anybody who worked for me, except some secretaries who weren't very good.
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I was the first studio executive to meet with Sean Penn after 'Taps' in 1981. I was anxious to develop things with him when nobody knew who he was.
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If you can market smut and toilet paper, you can market movies.
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I'd like my epitaph to read 'Given the amount of time she had, she did the best job she could.' Also that I'm a nice person... and a good mother.
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An epic is the canvas Brian DePalma paints on.
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People on the lower rungs are more vulnerable to sexual harassment than those at the top.
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You have to persevere, you have to just not give up, and you have to know what you want. You have to be able to see your dream.
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I'm tired of being the bad guy all the time, saying 'no' to people I like.
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I thought it was great being the only girl in the room. I loved the attention. After I got used to it, I didn't want to be the only girl in the room. I had no one to talk to.
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I just love the idea of ordinary people doing extraordinary things, whether it's the success of 'Cool Runnings,' which is the success of four guys from Jamaica who had never seen snow, or whether it's my success, just as a human being.
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I've gone far in the movie business, but no matter how far I go, every time I pick up the phone to call Tom Hanks or Robin Williams, I wonder if they'll call me back. And you know what? Sometimes they do, and sometimes they don't.