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I recently decided that I'm not an originator. I'm a synthesist.

Steven Soderbergh

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Steven Soderbergh
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: January 14
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I have no shame in making music that maybe, if you listen to it long enough, you'll realize you've heard this or that part of it before. I'm still very excited by an amazingly written song, so that's really the thing that I work on when I make records with people.
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It's a world in which people's motives are questionable and shadowy.
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Truth and facts have to trump partisanship. There has to be something that's true regardless of what your angle is on it.
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Everybody, including me, has to submit to what it needs to be. The thing is at the top of the pyramid, the best version of the thing we all have to serve that. You forget that at your own risk. And I think movies are too long, in general.
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Never had a cup of coffee in my life. Dr Pepper is my caffeine delivery system of choice.
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