Dawn Steel Quotes
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I write better in Cape Breton... too many people around in Ontario. Down there I meet all sorts of non-human people, but they don't bother me, and I don't feel I have to apologize on behalf of my species quite so often.
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Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
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I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.
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I think comics are really part of The Zeitgeist. They reflect back to us the issues that we're concerned about in the time they are written.
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We cannot rest until we make sure that our families can afford to live and raise their kids here, that our seniors can remain in their homes and afford their health and pharmaceutical costs.
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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
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If I take enough pictures, I'm going to get a good one, and I know not to stop at a bad one.
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I'm an aggressive fighter, but I'm smart. I'm not going to play stupid.
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I believe in the sanctity of marriage.
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I started skiing around the same time as I began playing the piano, at around four, before moving to the violin at five.
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I definitely wanted the second record to be a much more grandiose thing. I wanted to push myself and make a big statement.
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You show up in Paris, and on the drive from the airport to the hotel you're like, 'This is so cool! I want to see something! I want to go to the Eiffel Tower!' And then you leave the next morning. You think, Oh, I didn't get to do anything. I tell people: I've been just about everywhere, but I've seen nothing.
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I really enjoy working in genre series, because you really have to create the characters.
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If the same energy went into marketing movies to women as they do on the other demographics we might see more of a spike.
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The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.
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He that is rich is wise.
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Studios are like hospitals. A lot of people check in, and they don't check out.
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The hand of God creates; it does not conceal.
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There is a huge tension in trying to write with small children because they demand your attention and your time with a fierceness that can be matched by nothing else, but if you are successful in writing while you have small children, I actually think that your writing is likely to be deeper than it was before.
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Like a bottle of wine or a promising college quarterback turning pro, C.E.O.'s are similar to what economists call experience goods: you commit to a price long before you know if they're worth it.
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Purpose, pattern, and people, the three P's at the heart of life.
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In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
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I was the only punk rocker at my high school. And there were at least a handful of black kids who liked hip-hop. Both were kind of the new music of the day, and it was lonely being the only punk.
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I started with nothing. Less than nothing.
