Steven Soderbergh (Steven Andrew Soderbergh) Quotes
People are sort of numb to watching violence, but sexual activity is still as strong as it ever was in terms of generating response.
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I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.
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I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.
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I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.
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Of course, I want to look the best I can, but I am playing characters that should match my age, and the women and the material that I am interested in are usually going through something. I have to be able to live in my face and tell the story of the character I've taken on.
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When I was a teen, I thought I would have to choose between my writing or my music or my art, but it turns out it's a difficult juggling game but I can do all of them.
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The Russians obtained a number of plants under Lend-Lease, which had been authorized by Washington, that I thought were not justified for their war effort. They wanted them for postwar use.
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Once you join the queue for the immigration line, pay attention to what the expeditor tells you. Have your papers ready. Don't have your cell phone out. Take off your hat. Open your passport to the page with your photo and present it to the immigration officer already open.
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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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I was one of those girls in class who always had her hair in plaits, was always with the boys, always playing football in the street.
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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.
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I grew up in a very Catholic family. Up until puberty, I would go to a Catholic church every week.
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The psychological trauma of losing a job can be as great as the trauma of a divorce.
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My goal as an artist is to always be true to who I am and give my fans music they will enjoy for a lifetime.
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Only weeks after Oslo began, when nearly all the world and most of Israel was drunk with the idea of peace, I argued that a Palestinian society not constrained by democratic norms would be a fear society that would pose a grave threat to Israel.
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I'm still finding my legs, performance-wise, being up there by myself. I think I have a bit of proving myself ahead of me.
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It's real easy in a lot of businesses for your head to swell up, and you become somebody else. So that's one of my main goals in the business - to continue to be me.
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It is not an accident that developing countries - virtually the whole of East Asia, for example - view the role of the state in a far more interventionist way than does the Anglo-Saxon world. Laissez-faire and free markets are the favoured means of the powerful and privileged.
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Comedy clubs can be brutal. Those people are for real, and if you aren't funny, they aren't laughing. They don't care who you are.
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If you're wearing something I like, I will come over and ask where you got it from. I'm not shy!
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When you start to doubt yourself the real world will eat you alive.
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People are sort of numb to watching violence, but sexual activity is still as strong as it ever was in terms of generating response.
