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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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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Wo die Liebe herrscht, da gibt es keinen machtwillen, und wo die macht den vorrang hat, da fehlt die Liebe. Das eine ist der Schatten des andern.
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It is perfectly logical and proper to recognize differences between races and colors and creeds - as long as we don't classify them as being better or worse.
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Being a songwriter or a painter you're definitely facing your fears. You're facing your fears because you're speaking your truth; you're speaking from your heart. That's something that's not easy to do, you set yourself up for all sorts of criticism or vulnerability but that's why we do it.
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The same ten dollars you spend on lunch is all it costs for City Harvest to feed 37 kids who are hungry. That's pretty astounding.
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Working on 'Scrubs' made me feel guilty because I realized that if I had decided to become an actual doctor, instead of just playing one, I could probably have found a cure to cancer within five years.
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I missed the Olympic team in 1996 - missed making the team. I tried to make a comeback in my sport, and soon after the Olympic trials, Johann Olav Koss, who is a Norwegian speed-skater, called me up and asked me to be a part of Olympic Aid. Now Olympic Aid is Right to Play. It's a wonderful, narrow focus.
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I started with nothing. Less than nothing.
