Dawn Steel Quotes
You do sequels because they are tent poles. They open well, and they hold the tent up. But in between, you make a movie you respect.
Quotes to Explore
-
I love doing eyes - my signature look is a cat eye. I think it's so feminine, and it reminds me of old Hollywood.
-
We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.
-
Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s.
-
I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
-
You can't just keep recycling revivals. And you can't keep betting on the efforts of guys like me who've been around. You have to take the next step and bet on the next generation.
-
When I'm on stage, it's like a different world ... me connecting with the audience. It's a surreal experience.
-
I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win - if you don't, you won't.
-
We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to demand more until we have received the results of our labor.
-
Because art as a pursuit, as a concept, as an ideal, constantly elevates one above the pragmatic, one is inclined to discuss art in heightened terminologies. For me, it is just what I do all day long.
-
A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.
-
People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
-
Agatha Christie holds special personal memories for me because my mum, a television producer called Pat Sandys, had been the first person to persaude the Agatha Christie estate to put one of her stories on T.V.
-
While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.
-
When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
-
It is faith that drives us to build, a belief that we cannot be limited by lack of nerve or airspace.
-
I'm a huge Wong Kar-Wai fan.
-
I continue to aspire to serve Colombia as president.
-
Perhaps the hardest challenge has been to persuade the public, impatient for rapid growth, of the need to ensure stability first. Growth, it is argued, is always more important, regardless of the looming economic risks.
-
I never went to concerts when I was a kid, so I never knew if what I was doing onstage was right.
-
Reddit offers the opportunity for us as humans to connect on a much deeper, broader level because users have an alter ego and aren't tied to a social network of friends with whom they want to share how perfect their lives are.
-
I've always looked upon research as an opportunity to satisfy my curiosity. But the other side of the coin is one must not be so caught up in it that one never gets the book written.
-
I think I was a singer before I came out of the womb. I also think that the way you live your life, and the choices you make parallel what doors open up for you.
-
Am I not ninja enough? Are you saying that I lack ninja?
-
You do sequels because they are tent poles. They open well, and they hold the tent up. But in between, you make a movie you respect.
