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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I like to leave a film open-ended, with a lingering feeling. I'll not do sequels of any of my films till I have subjects to explore.
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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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Scientifically speaking, if I say something, or it gets misquoted, or people put a spin on it... I mean, are you interested, really, in what people are saying?
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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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There wasn't so many ISSUES like there are today. It was a simpler time.
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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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The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.
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There's chaos out there, and chaos means opportunity.
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I am hugely proud to have played for Ireland.
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Let us now speak according to natural lights. If there is a God, He is infinitely incomprehensible. . . . We are then incapable of knowing of either what He is or if He is. . . .
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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.
