Stanley Kubrick Quotes
A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.
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Dancing is the last sport with no sponsor.
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If I had any humility I would be perfect.
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To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.
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Even the distribution of rations leaves much to be desired; the fatigue party, well-intentioned and sympathetic though it be, often finds itself short of provisions.
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As a male designer, you always need a woman's touch.
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I have a fierce temper. I've mastered it over the years, but when I'm angry, no one can force me to do anything I don't want to.
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I really don't want to be known as a fashionista. I'd like to be someone more than that.
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I've said what I'm prepared to say in my poems, and then journalists think that you're going to tell them a whole lot more.
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Twitter is a real addiction, like the color of it, the process of it.
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If the world's nations can set aside their petty bickering over religion, politics, and territory, certainly I can 'get that Olympic Spirit' and rise above my prejudices.
Colson Whitehead -
I get a handsome amount. I could definitely buy a car off one of my guest appearances. & I'm not talking about a Hyundai.
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I know a lot of people who read and think: "George [Saunders] is so much fun." There's no denying you're fun to read, but as a writer I think of [George Saunders] as, in fact, not a fun and freewheeling type but really an obsessive control artist.
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To be honest I'm not going to sell dreams like everybody else does and say, "Sure, it can be changed." I don't want to seem like a pessimist, but nothing's getting better.
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[Donald Trump] is been very consistent on trade.
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One can be a technical master - full of craftsmanship, but not in most senses an artistic master.
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1914...Dr. Joseph Goldberger had proven that (pellagra) was related to diet, and later showed that it could be prevented by simply eating liver or yeast. But it wasn't until the 1940's...that the 'modern' medical world fully accepted pellagra as a vitamin B deficiency.
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Conceptually, I am open to mistakes - errors, actually. I do play lots of wrong notes while I am making some music, and a mistake or a wrong note is like a gift for me: 'Oh, wow, an unknown sound or an unknown harmony. I didn't know about this.'
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Baseball is all about stories, many of which are even true.
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All the future of socialism resides in the autonomous development of workers’ syndicates.
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Everything is a subject; the subject is yourself. It is within yourself that you must look and not around you... The greatest happiness is to reveal it to others, to study oneself, to paint oneself continually in one's work.
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I try to be more goofy when I'm on set now that I'm more comfortable. In real life, I'm so goofy and super weird. I'm never mean but people don't see the weird side of me.
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A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.
