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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Today I join the greatest players that played the game. It is a great feeling being here.
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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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My favorite time at NPR has been 'Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!' It was loads of fun and gave me a chance to meet and talk in person to the audiences that I felt I had known for so many years on the air.
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I had people sleeping in front of my home. I couldn't go anywhere. It confronted me from the moment I woke up. There would be 100 people at the lot where we shot 'The Partridge Family.'
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I kind of missed out on those years when a lot of my friends did big backpacking trips around Europe and that sort of thing. So to be able to travel and see parts of the world on the job is kind of a double whammy.
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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.
