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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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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I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.
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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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For someone to say I am overweight is completely ridiculous.
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There is a certain manner of self-absorption in speaking that always renders the speaker disagreeable. For it is as great a folly to listen only to ourselves while we are carrying on a conversation with others as it is to talk to ourselves while we are alone.
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Lots of crime films are about work. Free Fire could have been about a company of plumbers doing pipe-fixing and stuff. But the plumbing film is not so exciting.
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Everywhere I go, I will make a good payday. But we got to choose the right opponent and the right time and the right venue.
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As a child, I had lived many years in Southampton and sang in the choir of the Dune Church.
