Dawn Steel Quotes
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I love to feature children and young adults as real people - flawed, naive, virtuous, venal - but real. I think it adds nuance and depth to the stories that wouldn't exist without them.
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I don't have a definition for depression. I'm productive, and that's not a sign of depression, right? And I don't have weeks where I don't leave my bed. It seems like depressed people have those.
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Let me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man.
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If we follow the traditional way of thought, there will always be traditional enemies. Extremist circles from both sides will find causes to give rise to problems.
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I have a love for boxing.
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I go to correctional facilities and talk to kids there. They have little kids in there who are, like, 12 years old, stealing cars and stuff like that.
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In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a unique perspective on the world, a member of a class of one.
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I think that the best that government can do for you and I as individuals is to empower you and I to make decisions that only you and I should make.
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When I say to you, there is nobody like me, and there never was, that is a statement I want every woman to feel and make about themselves.
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My wife and I do not argue. We communicate. We talk. But we've never fought in our entire relationship.
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Eating constitutes the greatest obstacle to self-control; it gives rise to indolence.
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Oh yes, my generation liked to be in some pain when they read. The harder it was, the more good we believed it was doing us.
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I just read and read and read. ... I have always enjoyed reading.
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Die before you Die. There is no chance after.
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Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love for stories fantastic, marvelous and manifestly unreal.
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Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
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Ray is very secretive about his ideas - why not, the times that the Kinks have been ripped off, especially in the early years, it makes you a little bit cautious about telling anybody what you're doing. And that's understandable.
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The alternative scene, for a couple years now, has been taken seriously and that's a cool thing. I don't think it's exploded or anything, but I think it's pretty cool that it still exists, it's still affecting people.
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Another important thing to learn is that kids have a personality that has nothing to do with you.
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What Einstein was able to do was - to use a cliche - think out of the box.
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If Nietzsche is correct, that to shame a man is to kill him, then any honest attempt at autobiography will be an act of self-destruction.
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There are still a lot of cases in the world where you order something and then you see 'Delivery will be in 8-12 weeks.' This is because of the faxes and forms that still exist.
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Isil poses a threat to the people of Iraq and Syria, and the broader Middle East - including American citizens, personnel and facilities. If left unchecked, these terrorists could pose a growing threat beyond that region, including to the United States.
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The more I can stay on the creative side, the happier I am.
