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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I prefer to think of the audience as a single living organism with which I am sharing a singular, never-to-be-repeated experience.
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It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams.
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I've had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the country because of difference in religion. These are things we should put behind us.
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What I'd love to do would be to bring a person from the past to me. In that case I'd pick Jane Austen, because I'd like to know what really made her tick. It's my opinion that she was inhibited by her family and a desire to do the right thing. Away from all that, I believe she'd show new facets and enjoy the adventure.
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I am always thirsting for beautiful, beautiful, beautiful music. I wish I could make it. Perhaps there isn't any music on earth like what I picture to myself.
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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.
