Dawn Steel Quotes
It wasn't until I saw 'Rocky' that I realized movies could affect people beyond mere entertainment.
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It's so necessary to try and record the cultural memory of people. To set it down for generations to come. To better understand where we are headed. The problem is, a good portion of what we choose to remember is about willed forgetting. Which we all do, I believe, to protect ourselves from what is too difficult.
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I don't care much about hardware. Nintendo games are some of the best games in the world, and from a more graphical standpoint, the Wii can't do what a PS3 or 360 can do.
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You look in my room and it looks neat enough, but if you dared to look under my bed or in my closet, oh what a mess!
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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
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I've been called Mr. Patient Money because I have the patience to work through challenging circumstances.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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The day I leave Paris is the day I go down a level or quit football.
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Way back when I was a junior pastry chef, I'd bake loads of muffins every morning, as many as 120 or so, while operating on autopilot.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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I'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'
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We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.
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It's easy not to bribe. But it's not so easy to keep a business running at the same time.
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Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.
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Most historians and other writers of what we now consider 'primary sources' simply didn't think about women and their contribution to society. They took it for granted, except when that contribution or its lack directly affected men.
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Um... Bulgaria is an interesting country. The people are lovely. There are potholes the size of small planets.
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It's no good being too easily swayed by people's opinions. You have to believe in yourself.
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There is no sin except stupidity.
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If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?
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I think people who are not from here think the Inner Harbor is the only center for culture or fun in the city, and there's so much more to Baltimore. The Harbor's a beautiful place, but there are so many gems embedded in other communities that don't get as much visibility.
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You have to enjoy yourself when you go to the movies. People don't want to spend their hard earned money to simply go see a history lesson.
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It wasn't until I saw 'Rocky' that I realized movies could affect people beyond mere entertainment.
