Dawn Steel Quotes
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I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good - which is the family.
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.
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I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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I saw what the Depression was doing to my students. Often they could get no jobs, or jobs which were wholly inadequate. And through them, I began to understand how deeply political and economic events could affect men's lives. I began to feel the need to participate more fully in the life of the community.
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I'm lucky enough to do what I like for work - not everyone's that fortunate.
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I have known I was destined to live in Goa the moment I first stepped foot on the Panjim docks from the ferry from Mumbai, when I was 18.
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I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
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The best thing to do is just leave them alone. Alligators want to be away from you just as much as you want to be away from them.
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Russia is an amazing country to be an entrepreneur.
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Hear the other side.
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I am not interested in producing fiction for Indian television at all, the reason being that I don't understand the medium. I can be a judge or a host; I can do that as an individual. But to produce TV content, you have to know the game.
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I've seen articles suggesting that Wal-Mart buys at prices lower than our competitors', and that this gives Wal-Mart an unfair advantage. I don't believe it... What we hear is concern that in some circumstances, Wal-Mart may actually be paying more than our competitors.
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Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.
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Yoga carves you into a different person - and that is satisfying physically.
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Horseback riding is my passion. Other than work. People can't imagine me getting dirty, but that's what I love about it.
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I certainly never saw myself as posh.
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Kate Moss is the best thing since Jean Shrimpton, really.
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I think Operation Smile is in more than 22 countries, mostly Third World. It just happened that my schedule opened up at the time they were heading to Vietnam.
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This is a world in which each of us, knowing his limitations, knowing the evils of superficiality and the terrors of fatigue, will have to cling to what is close to him, to what he knows, to what he can do. . .
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Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me,and drench me in loneliness.
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I'm interested in trying to explore what I think is the truth at a given time in my life, and part of the process of being honest is - in my mind - talking about the idea that you're watching a movie. You're sitting here watching a movie. And I like that. It appeals to me intellectually, and also in a way I can't even explain.
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A really hard lesson to learn is that most of the time, it's not about you.
