Steven Soderbergh (Steven Andrew Soderbergh) Quotes
The best set was probably 'Bloody Sunday.' We had no money for extras and gambled on months of outreach to persuade the people of Derry to turn out and march for us on one single afternoon. And they did. In their tens of thousands. Seeing them march, their patience and their dignity and their commitment, I knew the movie would have a quality of truth.
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I've always wanted to play a Marvel baddie. I'm not sure I fit the mold, though. Like a powerful, extraordinary woman. Somebody with superpowers would be really fun, but I'm not sure how many middle-aged women they have in Marvel.
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If you want to put golf back on the front pages again, and you don't have a Bobby Jones or a Francis Ouimet handy, here's what you do: You send an aging Jack Nicklaus out in the last round of the Masters and let him kill more foreigners than a general named Eisenhower.
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Jean Piaget observed that scarcely any question seems absurd to a child, but he was silent on the question of absurd answers from adults.
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Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
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When you write for a comic series, many superheroes have 60 or some years of history that you are coming into.
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I'm guilty of eating Magnum bars before I go to sleep at night.
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We must master our egoism, and through this mastery, step outside ourselves and educate ourselves in giving. Fasting requires that we rediscover all that is alive around us, and reconcile ourselves with our environment.
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Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.
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If it squares with the Scripture, then let's go. If it's in conflict with the Scripture, then it's heresy.
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Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.
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I've been a ballerina since I was two, but I've always wanted to be an actress.
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I actually grew up playing the piano in the church and was deeply involved in music ministry.
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I was a huge Beatles fan. The Stones, Dylan. Later on, I got into Stevie Wonder, and Bill Withers - he's one of my heroes. Al Green, too.
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We owe it to all our veterans to make sure they have a chance to achieve the American Dream, just like the rest of us.
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I was a guy who showed up for work and took the chance for finding out whether I could do it or not... I'd like to think I made my success not at the expense of anyone. Success was accidental.
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Our country has had a hard time learning that lesson with energy.
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Cleveland gets crapped on a lot.
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I'm not interested in the suburbs. The suburbs bore me. And I'm not interested in isolating myself. I feel good when I'm engaged in what I think are the core issues of the society, and those core issues to me are what's happening to poor folks in this society.
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If you will have patience in difficulties you know the Holy Spirit is within you, if you will also have the strength to be thankful in troubles than is when the Holy Spirit shines through you.
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I feel like a lot of people would quite easily stab you in the back once they get what they want. And you see that in people.
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Some one has said that we are moving so fast that when plans are being made to perform some great feat, these plans are broken into by a youth who enters and says, 'I have done it.'
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The automobile crash was... devastating in ways that I still cannot really bear to think about... It took me many years to recover. In some ways, I never have.
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To return to the question of strategy...The Falkland Islands are unlikely to cause a major explosion.
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The best set was probably 'Bloody Sunday.' We had no money for extras and gambled on months of outreach to persuade the people of Derry to turn out and march for us on one single afternoon. And they did. In their tens of thousands. Seeing them march, their patience and their dignity and their commitment, I knew the movie would have a quality of truth.
