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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Both described at the same time how it was always March there and always Monday, and then they understood that José Arcadio Buendía was not as crazy as the family said, but that he was the only one who had enough lucidity to sense the truth of the fact that time also stumbled and had accidents and could therefore splinter and leave an eternalized fragment in a room.
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A Chinaman of the T'ang Dynasty—and, by which definition, a philosopher—dreamed he was a butterfly, and from that moment he was never quite sure that he was not a butterfly dreaming it was a Chinese philosopher. Envy him; in his two-fold security.
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If I hadn't turned out to be a filmmaker, I would have been a musician.
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Better a street-sweeper in Mexico than a filmmaker in Germany!
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Writing is thinking on paper.
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A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.
