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A satirist is someone who has a very skeptical view of human nature, but who still has the optimism to make some sort of a joke out of it. However brutal that joke might be.

Stanley Kubrick

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
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.
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Practice Punishment Violence
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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History Humour Political
Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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Like Movie Obsessed
Everything has already been done. every story has been told every scene has been shot. it’s our job to do it one better.
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Done Jobs Story
You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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Idealist Idiots Pity Village
The screen is a magic medium.
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Magic Mediums Screen
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
Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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Film Hollywood Trying
Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
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Happiness Men Money
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
It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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Confuse Mistake Pity
Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
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Creative Men Shooting
God has a hard-on for a Marine because we kill everything we see. He plays His game, we play ours.
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Fear Marine War
I’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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Dying Fear Tomorrow
You have not yet learned that in this life you have to be like everyone else: the perfect mediocrity–no better, no worse. Individuality is a monster and it must be strangled in its cradle to make our friends feel comfortable.
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Individuality Monsters Perfect

A satirist is someone who has a very skeptical view of human nature, but who still has the optimism to make some sort of a joke out of it. However brutal that joke might be.

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A satirist is someone who has a very skeptical view of human nature, but who still has the optimism to make some sort of a joke out of it. However brutal that joke might be.

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