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I never learned anything at all in school and didn’t read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.

Stanley Kubrick

It’s crazy how you can get yourself in a mess sometimes and not even be able to think about it with any sense and yet not be able to think about anything else.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Crazy Thinking
Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
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Happiness Men Money
It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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Confuse Mistake Pity
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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History Humour Political
I’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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Dying Fear Tomorrow
You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it’s really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas.
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Heart Learning Moving
The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.
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Art Emotion Hope Magic Mood
Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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Pills Stress Thinking
I’ve got a peculiar weakness for criminals and artists. Neither takes life as it is. Any tragic story has to be in conflict with things as they are.
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Artists Criminal Weaknesses
New York was the only really hostile city. Perhaps there is a certain element of the lumpen literati that is so dogmatically atheist and materialist and Earth-bound that it finds the grandeur of space and the myriad mysteries of cosmic intelligence anathema.
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Atheist Cosmic Mystery
Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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Film Hollywood Trying
The screen is a magic medium.
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Magic Mediums Screen
The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Creative Force Men
You’re constantly changing man. But the film’s not changing. The film stays the same. That’s the beautiful aspect of it.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Beautiful Film Men
Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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Like Movie Obsessed
Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Knowing Rejection Tolerance

I never learned anything at all in school and didn’t read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.

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