Dawn Steel Quotes
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It's about passion, and if somebody is passionate about a development deal, they're going to get it made.
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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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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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I was trained to be loud, passionate, direct. I didn't realize for the longest time I was intimidating.
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When I get anxious and scared, I probably lose my temper more than I should.
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I wouldn't want anyone to think that work is the major thing in my life.
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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 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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Dishonesty, lack of integrity catches up with you.
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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 want my child to have unhealthy values.
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I'm not Mary Poppins, but I think I functioned with integrity.
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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 hate management. I hate management. I just do.
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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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A really hard lesson to learn is that most of the time, it's not about you.
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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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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 started with nothing. Less than nothing.
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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.