Dawn Steel Quotes
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I've gone far in the movie business, but no matter how far I go, every time I pick up the phone to call Tom Hanks or Robin Williams, I wonder if they'll call me back. And you know what? Sometimes they do, and sometimes they don't.
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Historically, Vietnam movies have been profitable. All of them. 'Platoon,' 'Full Metal Jacket,' 'Apocalypse Now,' 'The Deer Hunter.' You're looking at movies that have been not pretty successful, but very successful. The foreign numbers have been extraordinary.
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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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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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I wouldn't want anyone to think that work is the major thing in my life.
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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 just love the idea of ordinary people doing extraordinary things, whether it's the success of 'Cool Runnings,' which is the success of four guys from Jamaica who had never seen snow, or whether it's my success, just as a human being.
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I'm tired of being the bad guy all the time, saying 'no' to people I like.
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The more I can stay on the creative side, the happier I am.
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I had an obsession with underarm shields - pointy ones, round ones, full ones, half ones.
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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 don't want my child to have unhealthy values.
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Dishonesty, lack of integrity catches up with you.
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I'm not Mary Poppins, but I think I functioned with integrity.
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I love stories about underdogs.
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I hate management. I hate management. I just do.
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I felt that if I shared the lessons that I learned - both the good ones and the bad ones - that I might make the climb a little less painful for other women.
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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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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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A really hard lesson to learn is that most of the time, it's not about you.
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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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Having money is better than not having it, but I've been poor, and I've survived.
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What sets Iris Stevenson apart is her success in a system that in no way supports her - with the hardest possible children to convert.
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Don't believe everything you read in the trades.