Dawn Steel Quotes

Dawn Steel

Profession : Businesswoman

Birth : August 19, 1946

A really hard lesson to learn is that most of the time, it's not about you.

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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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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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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 tired of being the bad guy all the time, saying 'no' to people I like.

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We manufacture a culture in the movie business, and whatever we put out creates a dark side and a bright side, too.

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I think exciting sexuality is part of the fantasy, part of the entertainment of a love story.

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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 wouldn't want anyone to think that work is the major thing in my life.

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If I can do it, anyone can do it.

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Some children's music is aimed just at kids, and it can be very childlike.

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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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If the doors are going to close on me, it's a little late.

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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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It hurt me deeply, this reputation as tough, hard, mean.

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In some ways I was curt because there's an unbelievable amount to accomplish in a day.

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I'm not Mary Poppins, but I think I functioned with integrity.

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I was so busy climbing up this ladder, staying above the water. If there was only room for one woman in a room, I wanted to be her. I'm not proud of it. I certainly don't feel that way now. It was an absolute evolution for me.

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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 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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