Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.
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More and more people are finally realizing that in the heart of America, there's all this incredible music that wasn't widely heard before because it wasn't in the interest of those who feel they have to control the taste of the wider public.
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Some people are selfish in all of their relationships. Those people are called sociopaths.
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The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal.
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There's just something about that cold rush that I know I hate and a lot of other swimmers hate.
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This debate is coming down essentially to two visions - Mr. Harper's vision for Canada and my vision for Canada, and to a decision to be made by people disappointed by Mr. (Stephane) Dion
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I know when I walk into that classroom in the morning, even if it’s for a split second, at some point I’m being checked out.
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The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice. The rich are always advising the poor; but the poor seldom return the compliment.
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A heck of a lot more accountability comes from individuals or the church doing it than the government, that signs off on helping people at 5 o'clock, because it comes from the heart, not from a badge or a mandate.
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My parents live near the ocean, and I've spent a lot of time walking through the water at night, being around the water.
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People assume I'm a boiler ready to explode, but I actually have very low blood pressure, which is shocking to people.
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I think the grandfather of the set is the director. He needs to have authority, to do what people want. A warm grandfather; he needs to know his job, to be open.
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I think I would just want to say that I do view serving in government as an honor, and I do view it as a responsibility.
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Tom McMillen was a three-term congressman from Maryland. He is the tallest member of Congress. Period. He's 6'11''.
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Birthdays, for me, are not really important. It is just like any other day.
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I feel like people start to believe things that people say about them and start to think they're really important. If you have a family that is down to earth and cool, I don't see how you can be like that.
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I am attracted to anything that does not feel derivative.
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It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgement by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law.
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For every one that gets made, there are five other movies that you try to get made that you don't.
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I love doing radio, and I love doing stand-up, obviously. I'm good flying up to four hours, but anything past that, I want to kill myself.
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I remember being taught my place.
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I was so young, and making movies, going to the studio every morning at dawn was magic.
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I was not a good doctor, my studies had been too rapid, my hospital training too short, but there is not the slightest doubt that I was a successful doctor. What is the secret of success? To inspire confidence. What is confidence? ... I do not know, I only know that it cannot be acquired by book reading, nor by the bedside of our patients. It is a magic gift granted by birth-right to one man and denied to another. The doctor who possesses this gift can almost raise the dead
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The screen is a magic medium.
