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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I work with a group of actors, and whenever one of us has an audition, we all get together, and we all work together on it. I think it takes us back to our film school days, our drama school days, us just working together and figuring it out because somebody else is going to see something in the material that you won't see.
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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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The hand of God creates; it does not conceal.
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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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I truly felt that was going to be my last tour. So here we are again and I'm saying this will probably be my last tour. That's truly the way I'm looking at it.
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Between the ages of twenty and fifty, John Doe spends some twenty thousand hours chewing and swallowing food, more than eight hundred days and nights of steady eating. The mere contemplation of this fact is upsetting enough.
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It's not that stock prices are capricious. It's that the news is capricious.
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Leaders lead but in the end it's the people who deliver.
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Change in all things is sweet.
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The more I can stay on the creative side, the happier I am.
