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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Shirley Sherrod seems like a good and dedicated person.
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The word "democracy" is a Western word obviously. It doesn't exist in Arabic. Democratiya is a loan word. We in the Western world make the great mistake of assuming that ours is the only form of good government; that democracy means what it means in the Anglo-American world and a few other places in the West, but not many others. Muslims have their own tradition on limited government. Now in Islam, there is a very strong political tradition. Because the different circumstances, Islam is political from the very beginning.
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Film entertains with different angles, quick moves, like a commercial. But filmmakers like Wim Wenders allow themselves to observe a subject for a long time without changing an angle, and allow you to do that along with them.
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You can only write by putting words on a paper one at a time.
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Shake accepted a yellowed slip of paper and unfolded it. It was a page torn from a copy of Julius Caesar. Minh had underlined a passage and written a rough Vietnamese translation in the margin. “`Cry `Havoc!' and let slip the dogs of war.' Yes. It’s what I was thinking. It’s what happened on the Long Mountain March, isn’t it?” “Yes...” “It wasn’t the first time. It won’t be the last. Do you remember My Lai, Minh?” “I remember what we heard. Quang Ngai Province. Civilians were executed by American soldiers.
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A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.
