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Stanley Kubrick (18)

Birth:	26th July, 1928
Death:	7th March, 1999
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Cinematographer, Director, Photographer, Producer, Screenwriter

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Today's Anniversary - 19th May

Births

• 1900 - Helen Steiner Rice
• 1944 - Lynn Barber
• 1979 - Berenice Marlohe
• 1890 - Ho Chi Minh
• 1976 - Kevin Garnett

Deaths

• 1966 - Theodore Francis Green
• 1994 - Jacques Ellul
• 1898 - William Ewart Gladstone
• 1954 - Charles Ives
• 1971 - Ogden Nash

• The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive.

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• Any time you take a chance you better be sure the rewards are worth the risk because they can put you away just as fast for a ten dollar heist as they can for a million dollar job.

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• It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.

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• A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.

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• If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.

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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.

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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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• Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all.

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• 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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• What do you take me for? A fourteen karat sucker?

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• If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.

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• 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.

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• The greatest nations have all acted like gangsters and the smallest like prostitutes.

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

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• There are few things more fundamentally encouraging and stimulating than seeing someone else die.

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• When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.

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• 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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• A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what’s behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.

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