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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The fact is that in too many communities in cities in Britain gangs now have become completely rooted into these communities and they destroy them around them.
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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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Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will.
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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 play guitar, the ukulele and the piano. I grew up on a mountain in Tennessee, and we had 'The Mountain Opry,' where anyone could just get up on stage to perform. It was just about the soul and heart of music. My upbringing was less about being great and more about just doing what you love. It was always for joy.
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Human beings are definitely changing the planet, but how much impact they are having on climate, I don't know and I don't care.
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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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Ultimately, the goal is to use acquisitions to compress time on product development and get people on the team, especially in senior roles, who can help build out areas of the company they have experience in.
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Si sapias, sapias : habeus quod di dant boni.
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You have to have heart's passion to write a novel.
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For all that being a parent is normal statistically, it's not normal psychologically. It produces some of the most extreme emotions you'll ever have.
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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.
