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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You write a hit the same way you write a flop.
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Realization is not knowledge about the universe, but the living experience of the nature of the universe. Until we have such living experience, we remain dependent on examples, and subject to their limits.
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Friends and family were convinced I was functioning just fine because I was efficient, productive and successful - who wouldn't be working twenty hour days? I had everybody fooled with my illness.
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But we have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy.
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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.
