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Stanley Kubrick
Age: 70 †
Born: 1928
Born: July 26
Died: 1999
Died: March 7
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I haven't had one sexual thought since the court martial.
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I've never achieved spectacular success with a film. My reputation has grown slowly. I suppose you could say that I'm a successful filmmaker-in that a number of people speak well of me. But none of my films have received unanimously positive reviews, and none have done blockbuster business.
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The truth of a thing is in the feel of it, not in the think of it.
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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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The world's religions, for all their parochialism, did supply a kind of consolation for this great ache. This shattering recognition of our mortality is at the root of far more mental illness than I suspect even psychiatrists are aware.
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Suppose by chance you do get picked up. What have you done? You shot a horse that isn't first degree murder in fact, it isn't even murder in fact, I don't know what it is.
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Here's to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it's caused me.
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What do you take me for? A fourteen karat sucker?
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Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
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