Stanley Kubrick Quotes
Making movies you're not trying to capture reality, you're trying to capture a photograph of reality.
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The good thing about SUVs is they have storage.
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Nearly all edible seaweeds - or 'sea vegetables,' as they ought technically to be called - belong to one of three broad groups: green, red and brown algae.
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You know, the Brits had a way of - running an empire. And I don't think America is comfortable with an empire.
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I gave up years ago on the concept that you could actually have balance in your life, I think it's a phantom chase.
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You don't have to find out what someone's mechanical abilities are. All those factors are already a known commodity. I've seen teams win championships and have their entire team quit the next day because they weren't happy.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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When I wrote my eighth thriller, 'Inside Out,' in 2009, the villains were a group of CIA and other government officials who colluded to destroy a series of tapes depicting Americans torturing war-on-terror prisoners.
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As a state senator and then a congressman, I've had the privilege of trying to do good things for people to whom I owe so much and can never fully repay.
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The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.
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Beaujolais is so underrated.
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The more choices we give patients affected by depression, the better we will serve them.
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People resent movies that try to tell them exactly what to feel.
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I have a few uniforms – depending on whether I'm going to a college campus or meeting a head of state. But clean and easy works best for me.
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There are aspects of being the first woman in space that I'm not going to enjoy.
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Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.
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People can be so neglectful of each other and of their own heritage - then death intrudes. Conversations we wish that we'd had earlier are had too late.
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My aim is that every sermon series I preach is prepared as though I were teaching a college-level course.
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The interesting thing about something in the back of your mind is that it can travel pretty far back in your mind.
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In Hollywood, moviemaking used to be about escaping reality to go to the movies.
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When you're portraying someone that really existed, there has to be a time as an actress where you leave reality and move into the fantasy world so you can do your job of creating a character.
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That's the great thing about being in a band: it's a gang for people who are too wimpy to fight. You can create a gang and have an identity and fight for something and stand up for something just by making pop songs. They're my gang members and gang members are for life, and if you try and leave, we execute you. That's the way it goes. A simple bang, back of the head, into the river, and we keep moving on.
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I don't see why I should be a dame for just doing what I always wanted to do.
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Making movies you're not trying to capture reality, you're trying to capture a photograph of reality.
