Dawn Steel Quotes

The first war movie I ever saw was 'Platoon,' and I was eight months pregnant. So my husband, producer Charles Roven, wasn't sure I'd make it.

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• I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.

  

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• Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.

  

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• The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.

  

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• I hadn't thought that women were particularly dangerous golfers. Could that be the reason that the Augusta National Golf club refuses to take down its 'No Women Allowed' sign?

  

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• When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville.

  

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• A politician ought to be born a foundling and remain a bachelor.

  

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• When I was younger, I used to try to fit in, but now I'm much more comfortable with just being myself.

  

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• The first war movie I ever saw was 'Platoon,' and I was eight months pregnant. So my husband, producer Charles Roven, wasn't sure I'd make it.

  

  Dawn Steel
  • War
  • Movie
  • Husband