Stanley Kubrick Quotes
A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.
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There's something scary about acting always, because basically you do all this work in a vacuum, and then suddenly there's a lot of money spent making a film, and there's suddenly a camera here, going, 'Right? What are you gonna do?'
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My wife asked me if I ever thought I would ever retire from stand-up. And I thought about it, and I was like, 'No, because it's my job; it's what I do, and I enjoy it.' It's still the most challenging thing for me to do.
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The three-thousand hitting thing was the first time I let individual pressure get to me. I was uptight about it. When I saw the hit going through, I had a sigh of relief more than anything.
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I try to live holistically and avoid conventional medicine.
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It's a truism to say that my state, Texas, isn't a red state: It's a nonvoting state.
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There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
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We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.
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I think there's nothing more amazing than helping people every day.
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Winemakers have to adapt to what they're given by nature: the vines, the fruit, the soil and the weather.
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Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.
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Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.
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Refinancing doesn't reduce your debt, it just restructures it, so be clear about what you want to achieve with a refi.
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I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.
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If I know somebody is coming 'round, it is incredibly difficult for me to work because I'm waiting for this interruption - even the children's comings and goings are interruptions. Cake-making is a good way of coming out of that space.
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Each man seeks his own interest, not the general interest. Let his own selfish interests be touched, and all concord is at an end.
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For new bands, I think a major label is the safest place to be. Independent labels are the ones getting away with murder. A lot of them are hobbyists who rip-off young bands, taking advantage of people who would never get signed to a major.
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God blesses him who helps his brother.
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I don't have goals when writing books, apart from getting to the end. I have rather vague ideas about how I want things to feel, I'm big on ambience. I have a title, a beginning and a probable ending and go from there.
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Curiosity is life. Assumption is death.
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Rosie Huntington-Whiteley is just perfect-looking. Whether she's walking down the street, she looks so regal and elegant all the time, and I love that.
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On quantum theory I use up more brain grease than on relativity.
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We can only restore faith in government if the state itself becomes an efficient, effective and transparent ally of the people. Bureaucratic inefficiencies, abuses of power and the misappropriation of public funds must end.
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I grew up in such a featureless, personality-less suburb. There was nothing to push against.
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A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.
