Steven Soderbergh (Steven Andrew Soderbergh) Quotes
My experience over the years with working with people who are not actors or not trained actors is that you have to get to know them well enough to see what they have that's translatable onto the screen.
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Every person that's in the NBA should experience playing in New York at least once in their career.
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College was where I got to actually experience the difference between black and white.
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A lot of the time we think finances are immediately linked to experience, opportunities, image, and all sorts of important things that can progress us in life. Sometimes they're not. Finances can be completely irrelevant if you allow yourself to feel like things are going well.
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Being exposed to different production environments in Korea, Japan and the U.S. was a great experience, and each system allows you to quench your thirst in a different way.
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Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
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There's that stigma about New Yorkers, how they're so mean, but in my experience it was quite the opposite. People were very genuine and very nice, even on the subway.
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I fell in love with the whole process of making a movie. I loved the sets. I loved watching the actors and the crew.
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If there is anything about your 'self' of which you can be sure, it is that it is anchored in your own body and yours alone. The person you experience as 'you' is here and now and nowhere else.
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I was always very aware of the nature of the place where I was growing up in Gulfport, Mississippi, how that place was shaping my experience of the world. I had to go to the Northeast for graduate school because I felt like I had to get far away from my South, be outside it, to understand it.
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In my experience, psychotherapy at its best is like dual meditation - it's like a container in which you can be compassionate and mindful toward yourself.
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I've only been doing this fifty-four years. With a little experience, I might get better.
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Whatever it is you want to do, take a job in that field. You will learn by experience and, slow and steady, you'll get it done!
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It's hard to see a film that's been made from a book that you really loved because it's such a different experience.
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It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
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Among many morals which press upon us from the poor minister's miserable experience, we put only this into a sentence: - 'Be true! Be true! Be true! Show freely to the world, if not your worst, yet some trait whereby the worst may be inferred!'
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Now, most of the time you couldn't be too sure of the quality of the drug. Although, in my experience the stuff was always of a very high quality, because back then we didn't have business majors peddling lower-quality stuff in an effort to increase profits.
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Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places.
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Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.
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Many things which are called 'secrets' are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them.
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I have naturally formed the habit of restraining my thoughts. A thoughtless word hardly ever escaped my tongue or pen. Experience has taught me that silence is part of the spiritual discipline of a votary of truth. We find so many people impatient to talk. All this talking can hardly be said to be of any benefit to the world. It is so much waste of time. My shyness has been in reality my shield and buckler. It has allowed me to grow. It has helped me in my discernment of truth.
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My parents had a difficult divorce. My dad had to take a backseat for a few years, and my grandfather came in. He was also my inspiration for becoming an actor. I really respected him.
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Stick your head above the crowd and eventually somebody will throw a rock at it.
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I have a very small public.
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My experience over the years with working with people who are not actors or not trained actors is that you have to get to know them well enough to see what they have that's translatable onto the screen.
