Steven Soderbergh (Steven Andrew Soderbergh) Quotes
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If you ask me, rockabilly has had a raw deal for far too long. People never shunned the blues or jazz the way they do rockabilly. But it's the original punk-rock, and it changed the way people looked at music for ever.
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I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.
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I think people who live in New York don't realize just how much time they spend talking about the subway.
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I would like to do something to help people and help the world.
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If you think about work, it's just this endlessly fascinating subject. We spend at least half of our waking hours working. So it becomes this incredible window into a whole variety of things: who we are human beings, how the economy works, how people relate to each other, how stuff is made, how the world spins on its axis.
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People don't just love mysteries. They are obsessed with them - especially the kind that are never definitively solved.
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The Dutch are a very practical people.
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I actually have more respect for people who are in the closet. You end up exposing so much of yourself because you have to talk about your sexual life. You shouldn't have to talk about it.
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I have very specific advice for aspiring writers: go to New York. And if you can't go to New York, go to the place that represents New York to you, where the standards for writing are high, there are other people who share your dreams, and where you can talk, talk, talk about your interests.
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Dealing with those personalities and the people who run this music thing has been most challenging. It's hard to really communicate things to people who run a business yet forget the nature of the business. They only look at the bottom line and the financial return, you know, they forget what it is they're packaging. It's art.
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I'm on JetBlue and United. So I spend a lot of time on airplanes with other people and in terminals or just traveling around and going to restaurants or whatever. The interaction I get on a daily basis is always positive. I've never had a negative interaction.
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People feel I don't mix much, but I'm working at it.
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No one wants their personal emails made public, and I think most people understand that and respect that privacy.
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In the universities, we teach you what we decide you need to know. And the employers find out when they hire people that students didn't learn what we needed them to learn. Online learning offerings, like the University of Phoenix, have relationships with employers and teach what you need to know.
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You could mention my name in any hallway in any academic institution and you would have people foaming at the mouth.
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And people do enjoy the plays at completely different levels. And, likewise, they enjoy the authorship question... at completely different levels.
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Being from North Carolina, it's kind of slow-paced. There's not too much going on there, whereas in New Orleans, there's always something going on. I just love all the people, going out to dinner and enjoying anything I want.
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As leaders, our job is to engage people so that they will want to participate in this grand experience in self governance.
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A guy friend and I went to California Pizza Kitchen, and a group of pretty girls came over to us and said, 'You guys are gay, right?'
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Chess and me, it's hard to take them apart. It's like my alter ego.
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I like my friends to be the hitters. The pitchers, they all have the same brain as I do. The hitters see the game from a different perspective.
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I couldn't tell the truth if my life depended on it.
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I tend to be drawn more to people than pure story ideas.
