Steven Soderbergh (Steven Andrew Soderbergh) Quotes
I like to know where I am. I don't like the kind of cutting where you don't know where you are.
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Your opening should give the reader a person to focus on. In a short story, this person should turn up almost immediately; he should be integral to the story's main action; he should be an individual, not just a type. In a novel, the main character may take longer to appear: Anna Karenina doesn't show up in her own novel until chapter eighteen.
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I guess hip-hop has been closer to the pulse of the streets than any music we've had in a long time. It's sociology as well as music, which is in keeping with the tradition of black music in America.
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Life is not easy for anyone. You have to have ups and downs. You can make mistakes. You learn and try not to make them again. That's pretty much my principle.
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I grew up in a very large, poor family.
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Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.
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I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it.
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Sometimes I'd say what's bad for the country is good for my business, unfortunately.
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The combination of olive oil, garlic and lemon juice lifts the spirits in winter.
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First and foremost, I'm a decorator and product designer. Everything I do, the television shows, the books, that comes from the design work. It's what I love.
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In the Middle Ages and beyond, the target was the Court Jew who had the ear of the ruler; during the Inquisition it was the Spanish Jews who thrived after their conversion to Christianity.
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Sydney's beautiful, the weather's great, and the air's fresh and clean, but it doesn't have the scene and the amount of likeminded people. At home, things are very comfortable, but I feel like putting myself out there a bit.
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I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
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The effect of sanctions on the Russian economy are clear to everybody, first to the Russians and to the Russian leadership, and the surroundings of the Russian leadership, the circle that is close to the Russian political leadership.
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I've always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain - its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have.
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During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released.
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But I don't think we'll go there until we go back to the moon and develop a technology base for living and working and transporting ourselves through space.
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I think about food literally all day every day. It's a thing.
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In my beginning is my end.
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The military is a place of discipline, technical proficiency, and personal sacrifice for the greater good.
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But if there's an erosion at home, you know, Thomas Jefferson warned about a tyranny of an oligarchy and if we surrender our democracy to the tyranny of an oligarchy, we've made a terrible mistake.
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You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.
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Everybody thought there was this bitter rivalry going on. In actuality, we didn't even know those guys back then.
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The nature and the DNA of IMAX has been redefined in the past years to shoot these huge blockbusters. But I think that it's not the sole purpose of IMAX to capture cars exploding in your face.
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I like to know where I am. I don't like the kind of cutting where you don't know where you are.
