Dawn Steel Quotes
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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The circus allows one to be logical and unreal at the same time. In the circus, all is possible: there can be a man with two heads or a character with a green face.
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I try to read as much as I can. I try to read an informative article every day. I try to stay read up on our world issues.
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While marriage is historically associated with dire obligation and clipped wings, I've found that it actually liberates you to take on adventure and achieve your dreams. I like to call my husband 'my person.' Find your 'person,' and you can do anything!
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We are currently working on new policies to protect and create American jobs, particularly by improving education. We need more information in order to find the best solutions to this increasing concern for American families.
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You gotta give everybody a new trend a new wave, something new to do.
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I am glad. I am now an Olympic medallist.
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People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.
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'Power' is a funny thing. Maybe it's a show that draws people in because they are watching people do things they secretly wish they could do or know they could get away with.
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I pick and choose my battles, but I overthink everything because I have to think about everything.
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I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball game. It's very thin, it's made of something very flimsy like lime, and if you cross it, it really starts to blur where fair becomes foul and foul becomes fair.
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I was raised to be an independent woman, not the victim of anything.
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The journey that I have undertaken, meeting people from all walks of life and learning from them, has been my biggest achievement.
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I love a man who can wear my underwear.
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Once you commit to something, you've got to commit the whole way. Try and make the best of it.
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I rejected the armed struggle because, as a Christian, I am committed to a nonviolent and peaceful struggle. But people take their own initiatives, because it is a Lebanon type of situation here.
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I just learned not to take a single thing for granted, and I think it just is extraordinary.
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The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself.
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I feel that the moment a date happens that it’s a social encounter that is potentially a sexual encounter. And the question of sex needs to be negotiated from the first moment on.
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In conversations with my daughters I hear omitted words or phrases. Sometimes they get mad, they say Mama, I never said that, you’re saying it, you invented it. But I invent nothing; you just have to listen—the unspoken says more than the spoken.
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When people say, "Oh, she plays like a dude," it's usually dudes who are the ones saying it. They're saying, "Oh, she's as good as us." Of course, that's a stupid statement.
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The greater the measure of our love, the greater is our joy.
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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.
