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've got Asperger's syndrome and I'm not a very good people person, so I've always been more comfortable around machinery. Not in a weird way - I don't want to marry my car or anything stupid like that!
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I think artists are really the root of a tree. They can search for truth or reality in their own way, and the gallery can support them - the outside part of the tree, where it is more about reaching the outside world, connecting with the outside world. That is the role of the gallery, no? Why does the artist have to do that?
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I was publishing when I was 20, 21. And it really never stopped.
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My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
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I really like using the softening cream. It helps me go out there with confidence to do what I need to do, and at the same time, it's very functional and helps keep the hair out of my mouth so I can focus on pitching.
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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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About three months before a contest, I drink a lot of water. I start to drink a lot of water.
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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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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
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When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville.
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Since I was doing all of it myself, I had to decide where I wanted to go with the songs, how to proceed with the chords, if the sound was alright, and all that detail on my own.
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A politician ought to be born a foundling and remain a bachelor.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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I've got a place in Portugal, which I like very much, but I've just been working in Malaysia for five weeks. My family had a chance to come over and we really loved it, particularly the island of Pangkor.
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If you can turn your wants into your needs, you can do anything.
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In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
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Imagine somebody says you are going to die in a few weeks; I'd really rather not know.
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I've already established my (political)machinery. It's like a car. It's fixed already. You just have to get in and drive it.
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They do think it is a big summer movie and that's why they want to give it a great chance, but they don't want to go up against Spider-Man 2 or some of the other big movies, the $100 million films that are coming up.
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I have all these rules for avoiding depression. One is going outside in the morning. I don't keep breakfast in the house, so that I have to go out first thing when I first wake up. And then I come back and shower.
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Everyone hits bottom their own way.
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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.
