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.

  

  J. R. Smith
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  • Career
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• College was where I got to actually experience the difference between black and white.

  

  Ilyasah Shabazz
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  • Black
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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.

  

  Natalia Kills
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  • Time
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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.

  

  Doona Bae
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  • Experience
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• Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

  

  Earl Wilson
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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.

  

  Taylor Kitsch
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  • Nice

• I fell in love with the whole process of making a movie. I loved the sets. I loved watching the actors and the crew.

  

  Maika Monroe
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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.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Experience
  • Alone
  • Self

• 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.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Up
  • World
  • School

• 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.

  

  Jack Kornfield
  • Experience
  • Best
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• Christ shared our experience; he suffered as we suffer; he died as we shall die, and for forty days in the desert he underwent the struggle between good and evil.

  

  Basil Hume
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Die

• I've only been doing this fifty-four years. With a little experience, I might get better.

  

  Harry Caray
  • Experience
  • Better
  • Doing

• 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!

  

  Rachael Ray
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  • Job
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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.

  

  Ed Harris
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  • Book

• It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

  

  Immanuel Kant
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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!'

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
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  • May
  • Experience

• 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.

  

  Lewis Black
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  • Business
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• Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places.

  

  Jeanette Winterson
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• 'Digiphrenia' is really the experience of trying to exist in more than one incarnation of yourself at the same time. There's your Twitter profile, there's your Facebook profile, there's your email inbox. And all of these sort of multiple instances of you are operating simultaneously and in parallel.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
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  • Trying
  • Experience

• I've been to Sundance eight times as a publicist and thought I was very prepared. I mean, who could've been more prepared for me? A publicist who's been there eight times. Getting there as a filmmaker was a completely surreal, different, unexpected experience.

  

  Ava DuVernay
  • Different
  • Experience

• The camera is not your eye, and it's not the eye of the audience. I don't think it's my eye, either. It belongs to the film.

  

  Claire Denis

• I was always into animals and animal protection, ever since I was growing up.

  

  Ashlan Gorse Cousteau
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Animal

• Some nights, you want to be George Jetson, and other nights, you want to be sexy.

  

  Brad Goreski
  • Sexy

• 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.

  

  Steven Soderbergh
  • Experience
  • Actors
  • Screen