Steven Soderbergh (Steven Andrew Soderbergh) Quotes
Any time I think out loud, 'I can't believe this is my job,' and remember I am a very lucky duck. Whether marshalling hundreds of zombies, doing crazy stunts or shooting big music numbers, I just feel fortunate to have made my passion my vocation.
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
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I think depression creates in me an urgent need to write, but I also believe that daily stress, and even the positive 'stress' of intense happiness, can compel me to express myself through the written word.
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When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.
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The '90s are really the 'Sex and the City' woman, and I think, right now, the new contemporary woman is the 'Lipstick Jungle' woman.
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I don't normally take to Yorkshiremen.
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I think for the last fifteen, twenty years or so, Hollywood has underestimated the appeal of the Western. I think there is still a huge market.
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I love playing sports. I'm overly eager and aggressive and not very skilled, so it leads to many small injuries.
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Women are the strong people in this world, not men. I think TV is finally catching up with that reality, and thank God.
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Steve Jobs was never going to let Flash on any Apple product again like that after in 1997 - he's got a long memory - they said no and Bill Gates said yes.
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I had throat surgery. We had to check that out and make sure it wasn't cancerous. I had a polyp on my vocal cord, so I had that taken out.
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How you played in yesterday's game is all that counts.
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Action is the real measure of intelligence.
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A bird cannot fly with one wing only. Human space flight cannot develop any further without the active participation of women.
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We all have very personal relationships to what happened on 9/11 and the events after tracking Osama bin Laden. Nobody can escape from the influence of that.
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If you believe in a cause, you must be willing to put yourself on the line for that cause.
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Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world.
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We had a tiny budget for 'The Greatest,' which was the opposite of 'Wall Street.' We just kind of went in and did it. You've got four or five takes and then you've got to move on. We didn't even have trailers to stay in or anything.
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I suspect people always thought I had a boyfriend, so nobody came after me.
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So I have this word for much of what I do in life: 'plorking.' I'm not playing and I'm not working, I'm plorking.
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And I try to remember if this happened before, because this is a memory I would want to keep. But there is no echo of it in my mind.
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Any time I think out loud, 'I can't believe this is my job,' and remember I am a very lucky duck. Whether marshalling hundreds of zombies, doing crazy stunts or shooting big music numbers, I just feel fortunate to have made my passion my vocation.
