Dawn Steel Quotes

The more I can stay on the creative side, the happier I am.

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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.

  

  C. J. Box
  • People
  • Children
  • Real

• 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.

  

  Tao Lin
  • People
  • Depression
  • Bed

• Let me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man.

  

  Sam Walter Foss
  • Live
  • House
  • Man

• 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.

  

  Fatos Nano
  • Thought
  • Find
  • Problems

• I have a love for boxing.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Love
  • Boxing

• 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.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • Kids
  • Old
  • Talk

• 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.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • World
  • Faith
  • Prayer

• 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.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Government
  • Best
  • Decisions

• 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.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Like
  • Woman
  • Feel

• My wife and I do not argue. We communicate. We talk. But we've never fought in our entire relationship.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Relationship
  • Wife
  • Never

• Eating constitutes the greatest obstacle to self-control; it gives rise to indolence.

  

  Mahavira
  • Control
  • Greatest
  • Eating

• 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.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Good
  • Pain
  • Generation

• I just read and read and read. ... I have always enjoyed reading.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Reading

• Die before you Die. There is no chance after.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Die

• 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.

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • Childhood

• Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Morning
  • Star
  • Sun

• 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.

  

  Dave Davies The Kinks
  • Why

• 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.

  

  Bob Odenkirk
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Taken

• I seriously feel like the best days are ahead, and I like the idea of getting to do everything I did before but with more knowledge, experience, and street smarts. There's a certain love, appreciation, and gratitude that you have at 40 that you don't have when you're younger, and it makes every accomplishment feel so much better.

  

  Jennifer Lopez
  • Experience
  • Knowledge
  • Gratitude

• The law: it has honored us; may we honor it.

  

  Daniel Webster
  • May
  • Law
  • Honor

• I've never had formal drama-school training; I've just picked things up as I've gone along.

  

  Agyness Deyn
  • Up
  • School
  • Training

• If I can make myself laugh about something that I should be crying about, that's pretty good.

  

  John Prine
  • Pretty
  • Laugh
  • Crying

• Divisa inter exercitum ducesque munia: militibus cupidinem pugnandi convenire, duces providendo, consultando, cunctatione saepius quam temeritate prodesse. ut pro virili portione armis ac manu victoriam iuverit, ratione et consilio, propriis ducis artibus, profuturum.

  

  Tacitus

• The more I can stay on the creative side, the happier I am.

  

  Dawn Steel