Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
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There are times in my life when I just want to be by myself.
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I was in high school. A couple of my friends and I decided we had to be in a class together where we could fool around, and drama was it because we'd do improvs, beating each other up. They left a year later, and I stayed in and got a knack for it, and enjoyed the whole process.
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Embrace the grease, if any, and look fresh and human. I like to look like a glazed doughnut.
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When you have this many losses, you don't have a following.
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I've had a dozen novels published and have made far more than a dozen mistakes. Which is why Randy Susan Meyers and I wrote a guidebook to help authors avoid making our mistakes.
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At the heart of every great movie is conflict. It's the same with a meeting. There should be conflict and tension.
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I try to explain to people that you get the roles that are right when they're right. If you have a nerd character but you're kind of a cool guy, you're probably not going to get the nerd part. The nerd is going to get the nerd part. You know, someone like me.
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Very often it's really inconvenient - who you fall in love with. You can't really control it.
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I've always thought it was important not to attach too much superstition to the space where you're writing, because once you get into the mindset that you can only do it a certain way in a certain place, your creativity can get blocked.
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I enjoy being in Toronto - there's lots of energy, lots of neat different neighbourhoods - but Vancouver is still home and always will be. I miss going for walks on the ocean with beautiful mountains.
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The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they're organized for.
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Americans are worried about pollution - oil trains running through their towns, fracking in their neighborhoods, coal dust in their air. They're worried about what the future will look like for their children if carbon pollution continues unchecked.
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You don't need an explanation for everything, Recognize that there are such things as miracles - events for which there are no ready explanations. Later knowledge may explain those events quite easily.
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I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time.
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A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly.
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When you stop caring what people think, you lose your capacity for connection. When you're defined by it, you lose our capacity for vulnerability.
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I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.
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The hallmark of good science is the testing of a plausible hypothesis that is then either supported or rejected by the evidence.
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I maintain the rather old-fashioned view that this is my work and it's in the public arena, but that doesn't entitle everyone to know what happened at home before coming here.
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Then there are actors my age like Ethan Hawke, he's in 'Moby Dick,' I love his work. I've been lucky. Alfred Molina, he has real class.
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It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration,-nay, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome.
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I think people need to see Prince live to really understand how remarkable he is.
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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
