Dawn Steel Quotes
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I think violence can never be justified.
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My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
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I am healthy and happy.
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There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
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When something is at risk or in danger or about to be lost, those are the moments you start to realize how much it means to you.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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You can't try to be somebody you're not; that's not style. If someone says, 'Buy this - you'll be stylish,' you won't be stylish because you won't be you. You have to learn who you are first, and that's painful.
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It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'
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I have always been small, so defenders have always been taller and tougher than me. So that's difficult for me; they foul me sometimes, but there you are - that's what the rules of the game are for.
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Investment in early education is not a Liberal or Conservative idea. Nor should it be decided along party lines.
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We love playing music but we're too weird to play music.
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Voting for a candidate for the DC circuit is very different from confirming someone to the US Supreme Court. I have been very clear that the Senate should not confirm any nominee in a lame duck session.
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People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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It is one thing to tell the citizens of some faraway country to go to hell, but it is another to do the same to your own citizens, who are supposedly your ultimate sovereigns.
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I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech.
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I don't sleep well. I rehash everything in bed. The mind's still working.
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Everybody jokes about that old story about the world only needing five computers, but when you think about it, that's where we're heading.
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You don't love someone because they're perfect. You love them in spite of the fact that they're not.
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When the time comes, we can only expect that we have learned enough to succeed.
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Nothing is more exhilarating than philistine vulgarity.
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I didn't want the public in my personal life at all - I thought that people might perceive me as too normal, and I'd lose that larger-than-life rock star persona. You've got to protect that!
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I wouldn't want anyone to think that work is the major thing in my life.
