Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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I am a Buddhist.
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In a play, the director is God, and I'm a great arguer. Rather boringly so, I think, about trying different things.
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My father was an amateur filmmaker who shot 8mm color documentaries.
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By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and denominations of Christians are placed upon the same equal footing, and are equally entitled to protection in their religious liberty.
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The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.
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No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published.
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I wrote The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God in five hours, but I had it all planned out. It isn't poetry and it does not pretend to be, but it does what it sets out to do.
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Coaching in the NBA is not easy. It's like a nervous breakdown with a paycheck.
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Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overhear ourselves when we talk to ourselves... he may teach us how to accept change in ourselves as in others, and perhaps even the final form of change.
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When there is conflict, it's good to step away, even for five minutes, because you could say terrible things that you can't take back, so it's best to walk away.
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Don't go in and tell somebody else how to run their business.
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My biggest asset is that I know how to learn, and that, I believe, will help me in the long run.
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While we are being fascinated by the tales of famous serial killers and how they were brought to justice, the real serial killer goes about his business with hardly a thought to being caught.
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I come from a massive family, and the youngest is twentysomething years younger than I am, so I grew up with children.
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I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.
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By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive Truth.
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Sex isn't hard, but intimacy is terrifying.
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To sum up, what has been our policy? We looked for and found friends all throughout the world.
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It was always something I knew I was capable of and from an early age my mother was involved in the film industry. She used to work at a production company. So I was exposed to a renaissance period of films in New Zealand back in the early 80's.
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We can't afford more top-down economics. What we need are policies that will grow and strengthen the middle class.
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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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An inmate in a Florida prison wrote to agree with me on the availability of guns, saying that a 'criminal can and will get a stolen gun faster than you can get your car washed.' He also points out that many criminals prefer guns gotten illegally, since they will be harder to trace.
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I'm from Spain, and in Spain, things in the '80s after the dictatorship, it was like a big explosion of freedom.
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A film needs more than you can give it in a lifetime.
