Steven Soderbergh (Steven Andrew Soderbergh) Quotes
That's why my attitude, even on my larger-scale movies, is to make them cheap. The less these things cost, the better for everybody.
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Good things happen when you meet strangers.
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Music was a big outlet for me. Being able to play an instrument and sing was definitely a good way for me to escape things I was dealing with: family issues, growing up, being a kid and not knowing what I wanted to do with my life.
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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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George W. Bush is long gone, and with him the idea that 'Israel can do no wrong.'
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E-commerce is applicable to Russia, just as it's applicable to any other market.
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I understand what it is to go through emotional trauma and retreat and go into the world of your imagination. I understand how art and music can be a place of safety in a world of reinvention.
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I'm proud of our court. It knocks back a lot of the propaganda the Communists put out about the way America treats her Negroes.
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When I'm writing, I like to seal everything off and face the wall, not to look outside the window. The only way out is through the sentences.
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As a kid growing up, I wanted the Allen Iverson shoes that came out, the Questions. My dad got them for me, so I was excited about that.
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People don't think an athlete nowadays can have a team-first mentality and I do.
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I'm more scared of parking by a parking meter than vampires because one of them is real and adversely affects my life and results in a $35 fine, and one is nonsense.
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At Tencent, we may be businessmen, but we are still chasing our IT, our science. We are still striving to create something really cool, trying to create things we couldn't even imagine without our new technologies. I am still clinging to this enthusiasm.
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I do have friends in Australia who now refer to me as 'Hollywood Jack.'
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The earliest English attempts at rhyming probably included words whose agreement is so slight that it deserves the name of mere 'assonance' rather than that of actual rhyme.
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It just happens to be that people like to associate poetry and rap music. I think that idea is kind of corny.
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I've found that when everyone rallies behind a cause, and when they learn their effort can contribute something bigger, they get engaged.
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Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.
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When I was growing up as a young lesbian in the '50s, I looked in vain for books about my people. I did find some paperbacks with lurid covers in the local bus station, but they ended with the gay character's committing suicide, dying in a car crash, being sent to a mental hospital, or 'turning' heterosexual.
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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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Cycling is an endurance sport. You lose your fast-twitch ability as you age, but your endurance peaks when you hit 30. I don't think I really started feeling my age until around 40.
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I approach music and acting the same way, through spontaneous improvisation. I never really try to rehearse anything, do it over and over, except when we're inside a take.
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I think 'The Shining' is one of the first horror movies I remember seeing.
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You have to be a pretty miserable person to not enjoy making movies. It's something I always dreamed about. I do not take it for granted.
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That's why my attitude, even on my larger-scale movies, is to make them cheap. The less these things cost, the better for everybody.
