Dawn Steel Quotes
I have to tell you, I'm a great teacher. Ask anybody who worked for me, except some secretaries who weren't very good.

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
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I wish the world could better know this country for what it really is. Not just a greedy economic giant crouching fearfully behind its walls, not just a panoplied warrior nervously fingering his weapons. What is this, is a people who gather together in thousands to give a people's government its essential vitality.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
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I did almost two years on 'One Life to Live,' so I was thinking, 'Oh yeah, I'm an actor now.'
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Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
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A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.
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There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams.
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I did a lot of stunts, so the harness work isn't foreign to me either.
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Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.
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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
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When I wake up in a bad mood, I try not to stay in one. Learn to make the best of what you have.
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In 1960, John F. Kennedy rode a superior televised debate performance to victory over Richard Nixon.
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The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement, crime and sexual behavior.
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Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.
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I like making sci-fi movies because I like watching sci-fi movies. I like watching horror. I like being in a horror movie. I'm a fan. My perspective's a little different just because I get to participate as well as spectate.
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As far as the sovereignty of Bosnia-Hercegovina is concerned we agreed to have limited sovereignty for a limited time and that is clear from the Dayton Agreement.
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No matter what a woman looks like, if she's confident, she's sexy.
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I cut my hair myself and colour it. I know everybody in the hairdressing business despairs of me, but it's so much easier to do it yourself.
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When I was with Geffen Records, I weighed almost 400 pounds. The label told me that I had a great voice but wasn't marketable having a weight image.
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I thought what I was good at doing was playing real simple guitar licks, since I'd cut my teeth on what Duane Eddy was doing; licks that were simple but had staying power.
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I have to tell you, I'm a great teacher. Ask anybody who worked for me, except some secretaries who weren't very good.