Steven Soderbergh (Steven Andrew Soderbergh) Quotes

I'm a grinder. I'll beat you because I will not sleep.

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• Afghanistan is very satisfied with Croatia's participation in the NATO-led peace mission and expects Croatia to expand its contribution to peace restoration in Afghanistan to other areas as well.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • Peace
  • Mission
  • Contribution

• A game of soccer induces more than enjoyment, more than entertainment.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Game
  • Soccer
  • Entertainment

• I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Age
  • Lost
  • Myself

• My music is a personal thing, and I feel like if I talk too much about the songs, or if there's too much of my personal life out there, it ruins it.

  

  Washed Out
  • Life
  • Music
  • Too Much

• The thing about being an actor is that as we get older, there are more and more characters to explore and, in general, they get more complicated, so you get to bring all your crazy life experience to the table.

  

  Victoria Clark
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Crazy

• I always say when it comes to dream matches, that is not up to me: that's up to the WWE Universe. That's up to the fans. But there is a guy on 'SmackDown' that I have yet to wrestle yet that's certainly gonna happen at some point, and that's Randy Orton.

  

  A.J. Styles
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Dream

• The most important thing is that sometimes you have to go through hard times to get to the good stuff.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Good
  • Important
  • Sometimes

• In America, it is traditional to destroy the black body - it is heritage.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • America
  • Black
  • Body

• In Japan, you get on the bullet train or the airplane, and I loved the little speeches the stewardesses would do. They even do little speeches before you play gigs.

  

  Beck
  • Loved
  • Train
  • Airplane

• No education is worth having that does not teach the lesson of concentration on a task, however unattractive. These lessons, if not learnt early, will be learnt, if at all, with pain and grief in later life.

  

  Cyril Connolly
  • Life
  • Education
  • Pain

• There ought to be a million-person march on the Mall... that can be heard in the living quarters of the White House.

  

  Arlen Specter
  • House
  • March

• I listen to Handel's vocal music, almost exclusively.

  

  Donna Leon
  • Music

• The web is democratising and also the voice of people who don't think they have another outlet. And that voice can be punitive.

  

  Mary Beard
  • People

• One of the first things I ever did was 'Critical Condition.' That was before 'Full House.' It was a Richard Pryor movie. I didn't have a giant part, but I was in it throughout. I loved the heck out of it.

  

  Bob Saget
  • Movie
  • House

• There's like a special group of people that come from different parts of the planet to study with me. It's nice. I just gave a workshop in Boston at the New England Conservatory, which was really nice.

  

  Charlie Haden
  • People
  • Different
  • Nice

• I mean, can I really create a full, three-dimensional character? I don't know anymore. I'm certainly going to try.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Character

• I'm Latino, progressive, and I have deep roots in the working class - my father was a bracero, a guest farmworker and cook, and my mom worked as a nursing home laundry attendant.

  

  Jimmy Gomez
  • Home
  • Father
  • Mom

• People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • People
  • Job
  • Acting

• I wish to live to 150 years old, but the day I die, I wish it to be with a cigarette in one hand and a glass of whiskey in the other.

  

  Ava Gardner
  • Whiskey
  • I Wish
  • Cigarette

• I'm a grinder. I'll beat you because I will not sleep.

  

  Steven Soderbergh
  • Sleep
  • Grinder