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" I thought it was great being the only girl in the room. I loved the attention. After I got used to it, I didn't want to be the only girl in the room. I had no one to talk to. "

Dawn Steel

Thought

Girl

Great

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

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Lack

Integrity

" Having money is better than not having it, but I've been poor, and I've survived. "

" You're not free in life until you're free of wanting other people's approval. "

" 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. "

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

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Top

Than

" Don't believe everything you read in the trades. "

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

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

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

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

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

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Late

Going

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" The more I can stay on the creative side, the happier I am. "

Dawn Steel

I Am

Creative

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Working together is the quickest road to marital problems. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I was trained to be loud, passionate, direct. I didn't realize for the longest time I was intimidating. "