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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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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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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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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Everything that liberates our mind without at the same time imparting self-control is pernicious.
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A God all mercy is a God unjust.
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Taken as a whole, the Cross Correspondences and the Willet scripts are among the most convincing evidence that at present exists for life after death. For anyone who is prepared to devote weeks to studying them, they prove beyond all reasonable doubt that Myers, Gurney, and Sidgwick went on communicating after death.
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My idea of a good night has always been having a lovely meal and a proper conversation.
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I cook a great fish, a great salmon. I grill it, get the skin nice and crispy.
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There was one man in the Labour government, Robin Cook, whom I had a very high regard for. He had the courage to speak out and to resign over Iraq. He was an admirable man. But resignation over a matter of principle is not a very fashionable thing in our society.
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I've got guns now. It's kind of gross.
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Too many pitchers, that's all, there are just too many pitchers Ten or twelve on a team. Don't see how any of them get enough work. Four starting pitchers and one relief man ought to be enough. Pitch 'em every three days and you'd find they'd get control and good, strong arms.
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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.
