Steven Soderbergh (Steven Andrew Soderbergh) Quotes
My working life is me doing what I want to do. This is that. I've made movies that people don't go to see.
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Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
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I support many organizations that I feel are doing the right thing, like Alonzo Mourning's foundation, Alicia Keys' foundation, the Make-a-Wish Foundation, and other well-established foundations. I kick out a lot of time and money wherever I can.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.
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The soldier who gropes for glory must submit himself to discipline. Subordination gives strength and security to an army. He that will not submit to it when corrected and improved by the experience of ages does not deserve the proud appellation of a soldier.
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I feel like I'm married to what I do, to the streets. And I feel like when the streets are mad, it's serious.
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Ireland and America, music-wise, are very closely related. The Irish came over with their fiddles in hand, and you can hear it in the bluegrass and rockabilly. I love it when music from different countries combine.
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We differ on several issues. And this may include settlement, the release of prisoners, the wall closing institutions in Jerusalem.
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When it's good, cinema can be one of the most important things in a person's life. A film can be a catalyst for change. You witness this and it is an incredibly spiritual experience that I'd never lived before; well, maybe only in a football match.
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When I first started, especially because I got the Critics' Choice before I'd released an album, there was a lot of scrutiny on what my character was, what my background was, what colour my hair was. I fought quite hard for the music to overtake the personality aspect.
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The end result of my personal story is that I became a really good drummer, and I know myself well enough to know that I wouldn't have without this really tough conductor and this really cutthroat hostile environment I was in.
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I've worked nonstop for 31 years. I've counted down myself hundreds of cues for everything in each 90-minute show. I've never really taken an extended break, so I'd like to see what a vacation is really like.
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To the totality of purposes of the perfect Law there belong the abandonment, depreciation, and restraint of desires in so far as possible.
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It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
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I didn't get why I was wearing a mask. But I understand it now - why my dad would want our face to be covered.
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I live every day to its fullest extent and I don't sweat the small stuff.
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I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other.
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I'm very passionate, very emotional, very sensitive. I've always been like that.
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We constantly run lines together before every show too, and then there's a long, traditionally long, story to tell the audience every show. Today, we're doing it twice.
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Soccer is an uncomfortable sport. You're running; you're getting tackled.
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As scary as it is, I like making real, direct eye contact with people from the stage. In a sense, it's like modeling: that feeling of locking in and projecting some kind of emotion to try to captivate people.
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Freaky things happen all the time in the world. I suppose everything has to happen for the first time at some point.
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It is more rewarding to resolve a conflict than to dissolve a relationship.
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My working life is me doing what I want to do. This is that. I've made movies that people don't go to see.
