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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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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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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April is tax month. If you are having trouble filing your taxes, then you should hire an accountant. They'll give you the same advice that they've given hundreds of corporations - taxes are for douche bags.
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Teenage girls in television and film, in my experience, oftentimes are portrayed as either the sweet, innocent virgin or the super-sexy, experienced, town bicycle. There never seems to be an in-between. I think most girls are somewhere in between those two tropes.
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My ability to not be afraid to ask tough questions or to confront, that matters.
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Some men say that they should be satisfied with the abolition of untouchability only, leaving the caste system alone. The aim of abolition of untouchability alone without trying to abolish the inequalities inherent in the caste system is a rather low aim.
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I never get tired of the blue sky.
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I was considered an ugly duckling.
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Since we’ve done well up to here without any problems, let’s continue to pull through in the future! Fighting
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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.
