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 composition of the primary is so different than when I was first elected governor in 1978.
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The day I leave Paris is the day I go down a level or quit football.
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You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.
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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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May it be long before the people of the United States shall cease to take a deep and pervading interest in the Fourth of July, as the birthday of our national life, or the event which then occurred shall be subordinated to any other of our national history.
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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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My parents, Gary and Patricia, let me be in my world. They never told me what I couldn't do. It helped me adapt in a positive way.
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We try to push such crazy ideals onto young women: the Hollywood version of what they should look like, what they should do, and the kind of Prince Charming they should be looking for. We should just be proud of who we are, because we can't be anybody else. So what's the point of trying?
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I really do believe that inner beauty is so much more than any kind of outer beauty.
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I lost interest in firearms because we had a dog that was scared to death of the sound of a rifle shot.
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When truth is no longer free, freedom is no longer real: the truths of the police are the truths of today.
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It wasn't until I saw 'Rocky' that I realized movies could affect people beyond mere entertainment.
