Steven Soderbergh (Steven Andrew Soderbergh) Quotes

What's great about things like Kickstarter is that it enables me, finally, and without any bad feeling at all, when people come up to me now saying, "I want to do this." I can just go, "There are no excuses anymore."

Steven Soderbergh

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• I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Done
  • Mother
  • Pretty

• I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • Marriage
  • Thought
  • Quiet

• We convinced him quickly that the possibility of war was absolutely nil and continued our festivity. On the next day we were ordered to take the field.

  

  Manfred von Richthofen
  • War
  • Day
  • Him

• It is because of me that today the union government has sanctioned special funds for the development of Bihar.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • Government
  • Special
  • Development

• So many of these comics are just frustrated singers or actors - they want to get a gig doing a sitcom. It's paint-by-the-numbers comedy, lame joke-telling. They're drawn to it as a career move.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Want
  • Career
  • Comedy

• I graduated from the University of Oklahoma, and I got the opportunity to take some on-camera classes while I was in school and met a casting director who informed me quite a bit before my move out to L.A.; it made L.A. feel possible, coming from Oklahoma and not having a family that was in the industry.

  

  Laura Spencer
  • Family
  • School
  • Opportunity

• I've always thought that we are what we remember, and the less we remember, the less we are.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • Remember
  • Always
  • Thought

• I think the 19th century is an extraordinary period with a welling up of creativity and all kinds of experimentation and exploration going on at least until 1940.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Up
  • Period
  • Creativity

• Winning is very important to me. I wouldn't be happy with anything less. And I work towards my goal.

  

  Nafisa Joseph
  • Work
  • Important
  • Happy

• I want to do more documentaries and travel to places I haven't been. That is where I think I can be fulfilled.

  

  Tatjana Patitz
  • Want
  • Travel
  • I Can

• I wrote my first play at the age of 10, 55 years ago, and I've always found it a fantastic relief to imagine I know what things would be like from the point of view of other individuals and to send out signals from where I actually am not. Playwrights never need to write from the place where they are.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Age
  • Play
  • View

• We're from Athens, GA.; we're big Bulldog fans, and I remember watching A. J. Green, David Pollock, David Greene. We were big Cowboys and Falcons fans.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Remember
  • Green
  • Big

• When we are younger, we say a lot of things without often believing in them. The thoughts within you are much more important, and so often, one can't completely describe what one feels. As we grow older, we realize that there is more to love than what is expressed in the conventional sense of the terms.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Important
  • Feels
  • Sense

• In 10 years, I don't really know what I'll be, and I like not having any idea. I like the idea of being so passionate about everything I do and the fact that I might wake up tomorrow and say 'I want to be a chef,' and just pour myself into that.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Up
  • Myself
  • Tomorrow

• I live like a scumbag, but it's cheap.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • Live
  • Like
  • Cheap

• Strew gladness on the paths of men-You will not pass this way again.

  

  Sam Walter Foss
  • Men

• Postal will be so politically incorrect and harsh, it's like a mirror to American society, and I don't think the movie will be well received by anybody. For example, Osama Bin Laden will be one of the lead characters—I think that shows the mood of the movie.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • American
  • Movie
  • Society

• Dem Bunde der Künstler einen bestimmten Zweck geben, das heisst ein dürftiges Institut an die Stelle des ewigen Vereins setzen; das heisst die Gemeinde der Heiligen zum Staat erniedrigen.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Die

• People ask me in Europe, when they do interviews... they ask me, 'Well, how does it feel to be a cook in a country that doesn't know how to eat?' It always touches a nerve, because Europe and the world think that America is no more than bad hot dogs and bad burgers.

  

  Jose Andres
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Life
  • Different
  • Soul

• To me, 'rock star' conjures up something like a mystic: someone who sees himself as above other people, someone who has the key to the secret that people want to know.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • Up
  • Me

• Kelly Preston is a remarkable human being and a great dramatic actress. It was a privilege as a director to tap into this part of her. Rarely do I make a kind of spiritual connection with my cast. Kelly was a wonderful exception. She is truly very special and I adore her.

  

  George Hickenlooper
  • Great
  • She
  • Spiritual

• The praise we seek for our own virtues sometimes tempts us to flatter the imperfections of other men.

  

  Norm MacDonald
  • Seek
  • Virtues
  • Imperfections

• What's great about things like Kickstarter is that it enables me, finally, and without any bad feeling at all, when people come up to me now saying, "I want to do this." I can just go, "There are no excuses anymore."

  

  Steven Soderbergh
  • Feeling
  • Excuses