Steven Soderbergh (Steven Andrew Soderbergh) Quotes
My father, who was the one who really got me hooked on movies, liked all kinds of films, and I saw all kinds of films at a very young age.
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I love the idea of getting up early on Sundays and walking to the market to pick up fresh fruits and vegetables. It's a good way to start my day, and it makes me feel like I've accomplished something before other people are even awake.
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I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.
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I'm a professional, and I know what I have to do. I know where I've failed and how I've grown up.
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Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.
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Sometimes God presents opportunities that look insignificant or rather ordinary. Perhaps you don't see how they fit into the big picture for your life. But if God is asking you to do something, He has a purpose for it.
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I studied at the Hebrew University Medical Faculty, graduated, and was an Israel Defense Forces' combat physician on a Navy ship.
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A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
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Developing nations want to become developed nations.
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Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.
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Even though the popularity and the fanbase is much much greater, and more people have heard about me through things like the Grammys and the Ivors and touring and word of mouth, it doesn't reflect in the sales of the record and doesn't go into my pocket.
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I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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I remember someone telling me that when he saw the back of a woman's head, he knew that was the woman he was going marry. I laughed that away as silly talk. But I guess when a relationship has to happen, it happens seamlessly. Your partner just walks into your life.
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I wouldn't mind being the lead guitarist in an incredibly successful rock band. However, I don't play the guitar.
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After so many books and so many years of writing, I have a good idea of my strengths and weaknesses. I love the process of writing and, if I allowed myself, I would write far too much every day. One weakness which I've struggled to overcome is my tendency to having my characters ruminate for pages.
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On the whole, actors shout when they don't know what they're doing, trying to make an impact.
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Russian Parliament today is a bunch of puppets that just fall in with the instructions from Kremlin.
Garry Kasparov -
Never blog just to put something out there. I would post only things that excite me.
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When someone leaves an office, often there's a series of successors until you settle on one.
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Being a father kind of gives you something more to play for.
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Poor-country surf communities can be complex and, to some extent, leveling. The fisherman's kid is competing head to head with the plutocrat's gilded son. Your father can't buy you a good frontside hack.
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O what is life, if we must hold it thus as wind-blown sparks hold momentary fire?
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That phrase, 'loss of innocence,' has become stale with overuse and diminishing returns; no other culture is so addicted to this narcissistic impression of itself as having any innocence to lose in the first place.
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My father, who was the one who really got me hooked on movies, liked all kinds of films, and I saw all kinds of films at a very young age.
