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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Yes, my parents are strict about me having a childhood. I go ice skating and sledding, and swimming in the summer.
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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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Superman can fly high way up in the sky 'cause we believe he can. So what we choose to believe can always work out fine...It's all in the mind.
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Good genre movies are a little bit like trying to write a haiku. There are certain things that you have to do to fulfill the audience's expectations, but inside that, you have complete freedom to talk about whatever you want. Who wants to see a movie about gun violence in America and class? But, if you set it in this terrifying, fun, roller coaster ride of a movie, you can talk about whatever you want. That's been the game that genre movies play, when they do it well.
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Capital punishment is the source of many an argument, both good and bad.
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Hang sorrow! care will kill a cat.
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You kind of have to celebrate the moment that you get to create something that you love that falls into the parameters of a 3-minute-and-20-second song, to try to be creative inside of those parameters.
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I started with nothing. Less than nothing.
