Steven Soderbergh (Steven Andrew Soderbergh) Quotes
But my sense in talking to people when I travel is that the film business is not that dissimilar from a lot of other businesses.
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
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I play some fighting games, but mostly I just play sports.
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It's funny, because when I was in college, all my professors said, 'You should do comedy.' And I was like, 'No! No!' But I was able to get my foot in the door through comedy. I'm so grateful to have the opportunity to do it.
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People want to imagine I spend every night going to premieres and putting on frocks and getting into limos, and yet I do that maybe twice a year, if that.
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I realized in the early days I just didn't edit at all. But I think you become a little more cagey with your lyrics when you know more people are going to hear them and make assumptions about you as a person. Realizing that, you want to be a little more opaque.
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In the days when I was the big hero, the money wasn't much. Nobody made anything on television in those days.
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I think globalization is a great thing. And now a lot of people complain about globalization; a lot of people don't like, you know, the globalize of the concept, the idea of the results. I think the globalization is a great idea and to create a lot of jobs.
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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
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Endless effort, endless humility, endless modesty.
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I'm the sort of person who keeps a lot to myself.
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I love it when a character requires me to look less than my red-carpet best.
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I started skiing around the same time as I began playing the piano, at around four, before moving to the violin at five.
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It's always fun to play someone who is a little off. Normal is a little boring.
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To speak specifically of our problem with the Muslim world, we are meandering into a genuine clash of civilizations, and we're deluding ourselves with euphemisms. We're talking about Islam being a religion of peace that's been hijacked by extremists. If ever there were a religion that's not a religion of peace, it is Islam.
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Questions and answers is a big space, and there are lots of possible systems that you can create for different goals.
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The battle of Austerlitz is the grandest of all I have fought.
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I had this totally impossible dream of being an actress. Trust me, just because I'm lucky enough to be doing this doesn't make any of this less of a pipe dream. And nothing gets my juices flowing like a really great performance. To see someone on stage, I get really excited.
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Today I began the novel that I determined to be great.
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The old notion that brevity is the essence of wit has succumbed to the modern idea that tedium is the essence of quality.
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I then realized my appearance was a bit odd. My right leg was no longer with me. It had caught somewhere in the top of the cockpit as I tried to leave my Spitfire.
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We have to have a grasp of where we are from a budgetary standpoint. We have to have better accountability and we have to run it like a business.
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Interviews are vital, but you cannot allow an interviewer to take your life and disturb it.
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My life and my whole eternity belongs to God. All this stuff is temporary. Money, fame, successtemporary. Even life is temporary. Jesusthat's eternal.
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But my sense in talking to people when I travel is that the film business is not that dissimilar from a lot of other businesses.
