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The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.

Stanley Kubrick

I’ve never laid a cane on the back of a lord before, but if you force me to I shall speedily become used to the practice.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Practice Punishment Violence
One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.
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Men Symphony Writing
Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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Pills Stress Thinking
Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
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Knowing Rejection Tolerance
All my life I’ve always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.
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Destruction Spoiled
Sanitised violence in movies has been accepted for years. What seems to upset everybody now is the showing of the consequences of violence.
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Upset Violence Years
I used and abused drugs and alcohol. When I stopped doing that it became a lot clearer that life goes from inside to giving as opposed to taking and destroying.
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Abused Alcohol Giving Used
Either you care, or you don’t. There’s no in-between. And if you care, then go all of the way.
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Care Way
Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
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Happiness Men Money
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
I’m not saying we wouldn’t get our hair mussed, Mr. President, but I do say not more than ten to twenty million dead depending upon the breaks.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Death Hair Science
Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
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Running War Wells
The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
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Destruction Planets Scales
Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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Film Hollywood Trying
The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent, but if we can come to terms with this indifference, then our existence as a species can have genuine meaning. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.
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Darkness Life Light Meaning
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

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