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Don't believe everything you read in the trades.

~Dawn Steel

Topics: Believe Everything Read Trades You

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I hate management. I hate management. I just do.

~Dawn Steel

Topics: Hate Just Management

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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.

~Dawn Steel

Topics: Bad Bad Ones Both Climb Felt Good Good Ones Learned Less Lessons Little Make Might Other Painful Shared Women

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I react to stress badly. I handle it better these days. But I'm a very straightforward person.

~Dawn Steel

Topics: Badly Better Days Handle Person React Straightforward Stress Very

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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.

~Dawn Steel

Topics: Accomplish Amount Because Considering Day Insensitive Jobs Know Maybe Pressures Responsibilities Say Some Unbelievable Ways Would

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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.

~Dawn Steel

Topics: Complicated Depend Fraught Long Long Time Mine Mothers Necessarily Other Problems Relationships Think Time Trust Very Women Women Are I Think

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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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Topics: Charles Eight Ever First Husband Make Months Movie Pregnant Producer Saw Sure War

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An epic is the canvas Brian DePalma paints on.

~Dawn Steel

Topics: Brian Canvas Epic Paints

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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.

~Dawn Steel

Topics: Back Business Call Every Every Time Far Go Gone How How Far Know Matter Me Movie Movie Business Phone Pick Robin Robin Williams Sometimes Time Tom Tom Hanks Up Williams Wonder You I Wonder

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

~Dawn Steel

Topics: About Hard Learn Lesson Most Really Time You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Businesswoman

Born: August 19th, 1946

Died: December 20th, 1997

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