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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My parents were very volatile but very loving. My father would get jealous if my mother looked at somebody. I used to be insanely jealous. It comes out of insecurity. It can come and go, but you get to the point in life where you don't have this raging jealousy and protectiveness about your world.
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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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I grew up on Jerry Lewis and Abbot and Costello, the Marx Brothers.
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What you need to know is very little, but to know that little takes very very much.
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When a man is asked to make a speech, the first thing he has to decide is what to say.
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There's something very addictive about people pleasing. It's a thought pattern and a habit that feels really, really good until it becomes desperate.
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If you can market smut and toilet paper, you can market movies.
