Dawn Steel Quotes

Dawn Steel

Profession : Businesswoman

Birth : August 19, 1946

That's my proudest accomplishment: that I don't feel like a grown-up.

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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 have to tell you, I'm a great teacher. Ask anybody who worked for me, except some secretaries who weren't very good.

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Some friends of mine had parents who made school a treat, a gift - not something to be endured.

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It's unfathomable how you live without your mother.

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I had an obsession with underarm shields - pointy ones, round ones, full ones, half ones.

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If you can market smut and toilet paper, you can market movies.

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Working together is the quickest road to marital problems.

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I'd like my epitaph to read 'Given the amount of time she had, she did the best job she could.' Also that I'm a nice person... and a good mother.

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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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It's about passion, and if somebody is passionate about a development deal, they're going to get it made.

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When I get anxious and scared, I probably lose my temper more than I should.

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Foreign revenues are tremendously important, but foreign audiences are dying for American movies, not for films they could make themselves.

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The men I worked for didn't look at me as having any gender at all. They regarded me more as a workhorse.

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People on the lower rungs are more vulnerable to sexual harassment than those at the top.

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I love stories about underdogs.

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I was the first studio executive to meet with Sean Penn after 'Taps' in 1981. I was anxious to develop things with him when nobody knew who he was.

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We have to make some movies we have passion for, respect for.

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You do sequels because they are tent poles. They open well, and they hold the tent up. But in between, you make a movie you respect.

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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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