Dawn Steel Quotes
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You have to persevere, you have to just not give up, and you have to know what you want. You have to be able to see your dream.
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When I get anxious and scared, I probably lose my temper more than I should.
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I thought it was great being the only girl in the room. I loved the attention. After I got used to it, I didn't want to be the only girl in the room. I had no one to talk to.
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I was trained to be loud, passionate, direct. I didn't realize for the longest time I was intimidating.
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I wanted to be respected by filmmakers, and why should they respect me if they saw that my superiors did not treat me with respect.
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Dishonesty, lack of integrity catches up with you.
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There's no training for the business, no credentials necessary to enter... It's all about entrepreneurs, innate street intelligence, and instincts. It's a business which encourages people with dreams. That's the essence of Hollywood.
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You're not free in life until you're free of wanting other people's approval.
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I would walk into my office, and I would close the door, and I would say, 'I won't cry, I won't cry, I won't cry'... At least, I wasn't going to let them see me cry.
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I wouldn't want anyone to think that work is the major thing in my life.
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I think women's relationships with other women are very complicated and depend on their relationships with their mothers. Mine was fraught with problems. So I didn't necessarily trust women for a long time.
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I don't want my child to have unhealthy values.
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Visibility is dangerous because if a guy cuts you off in traffic, you can't call him a name - it might get to the press.
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I'm not Mary Poppins, but I think I functioned with integrity.
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I started with nothing. Less than nothing.
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I had an obsession with underarm shields - pointy ones, round ones, full ones, half ones.
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The more I can stay on the creative side, the happier I am.
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The first war movie I ever saw was 'Platoon,' and I was eight months pregnant. So my husband, producer Charles Roven, wasn't sure I'd make it.
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It hurt me deeply, this reputation as tough, hard, mean.
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In my family, education was something you endured. My parents weren't educated past high school, and the only book in our house was a 'Reader's Digest' condensed book. Can you imagine?
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I don't know that I would say abrasive. In some ways, I was curt because there's an unbelievable amount to accomplish in a day, and maybe I was insensitive considering the pressures and responsibilities of these jobs.
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A really hard lesson to learn is that most of the time, it's not about you.
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I love stories about underdogs.
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Don't believe everything you read in the trades.