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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I think if you're good and you can persuade people you're going to be able to do that role and ultimately the audience buys it, then it doesn't matter whether you were really a chimpanzee in disguise! You've done it.
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I know I've erred in the past putting too much of my social justice sentiments in comics, but hopefully not too much, and I tried to only do that with characters that it made sense with it. These days, with the 'social justice' aspects of the two books I write, 'Catwoman' and 'Katana,' the concerns are more about moral justice.
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Whatever a monk keeps pursuing with his thinking and pondering, that becomes the inclination of his awareness.
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It occurred to me that a lot of beauty has to do with believing it yourself. That half of what we see is just the way it is presented.
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I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour.
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I started with nothing. Less than nothing.
