Stanley Kubrick Quotes
The hardest thing in making a movie is to keep in the front of your consciousness your original response to the material. Because that's going to be the thing that will make the movie. And the loss of that will break the movie.
Quotes to Explore
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I screen tested for 'The Tudors' in N.Y. That was my first experience of N.Y., being flown here to screen test with Jonathan Rhys Meyers. So I have very, very fond memories of New York – New York helped give me my first big break.
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As wild as I was, when the cops show up, and suddenly you're being handcuffed, it's so deeply shocking and terrifying, the loss of freedom.
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The big bulk of the response to antidepressants is the placebo response.
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The biggest things in life are not materials.
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One of the hardest things is to create hope.
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The hardest portion of English, I must say it: Idioms.
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There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.
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The hardest part about this business is accepting the back end with the same love that you accepted the front end.
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When someone fears losing your affection, he or she will strive to keep it. Perhaps you have strived to keep someone's affection, too. Fear of loss is not love.
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At the first rumors of war, timid investors in various government stock, being panic-stricken, sell out, to their loss and the gamblers' gain.
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A bowler can make or break a chap.
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In Europe there's the upper crust, and these are long, historically families and social systems that have certain established rules that's harder to break into.
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I await joyous surprises while working, an awakening of the materials that I work with and that my spirit develops.
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All knowledge is in response to a question. If there were no question, there would be no scientific knowledge. Nothing proceeds from itself.
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I had known a couple of people who had died, but the loss of my mother contained something of the profoundly unknowable.
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It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.
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The biggest seller is cookbooks and the second is diet books - how not to eat what you've just learned how to cook.
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If you fall down those stairs and break both of your legs, don't come running to me!
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Better balance, less pain and less restless leg syndrome.
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As I got more involved in music, one of the things that made me excited, from the time I was a child, was that clear link between our ancestors and the sounds we hear today.
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We Jews have been too adaptable. We have been too eager to sacrifice our idiosyncrasies for the sake of social conformity. … Even in modern civilization, the Jew is most happy if he remains a Jew.
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Teams tend to fold if you come out and play hard in the beginning.
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The hardest thing in making a movie is to keep in the front of your consciousness your original response to the material. Because that's going to be the thing that will make the movie. And the loss of that will break the movie.
