Dawn Steel Quotes
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I have the greatest love for the rituals of organised religion - the sense of community and belonging it can confer to people. But me, I'm more a questioner than a follower; not by whim or fashion, but as a decision painfully arrived at after much, much thought.
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The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.
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I actually like getting out of my comfort zone. It shakes me up.
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
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Being in Harlem on the night of Barack Obama's election was extraordinary. It was the best street party I have ever gone to, and it felt like the period of American history which began with slavery had ended that evening.
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I have a very vivid memory of the way my parents spoke, and the 50's that I grew up in are closer to the 20's, I think, than today in many, many ways.
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I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.
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The voices on the record, that was trying to treat my voice like guitar players treat guitar tones.
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I won't be making any friends in the corporate suites.
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There are many challenges, there are many obstacles; let us try to change the obstacles to advantages.
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If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts.
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I've noticed that a lot of people in film always seem interested in music videos, like it's some, like, really exciting thing they've always wanted to do or something.
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In a memoir, your main contract with the reader is to tell the truth, no matter how bizarre.
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There is scarcely anything that drags a person down like debt.
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Your Highest Self only wants you to be at peace. It does not judge, compare, or demand that you defeat anyone or be better than anyone.
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I never meant to be but a dreamer.
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I think this is a pile of shit, while John Sinclair rots in prison.
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Another stupid party last night; perhaps if larger they might be less intolerable, but here there were only just enough to make one card-table, with six people to look on and talk nonsense to each other.
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There are hundreds of Beckhams playing football all over the world.
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Where I fall down is my short game. I don't practice enough, and when I have to take a half swing from 50 yards out, that's trouble.
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Never forget that we were enslaved in this country longer than we have been free. Never forget that for 250 years black people were born into chains-whole generations followed by more generations who knew nothing but chains.
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Because you and you alone I can't block out, no matter how hard I try - and believe me, I've tried. I know where you are every second of every day. I know if you're having good or bad dreams while you sleep.
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I like to keep my budgets at a certain price when I work for someone else, and even more so now that I'm working for myself, and use new technologies to deliver films that look like they have high production levels.
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If you can market smut and toilet paper, you can market movies.
