Alexander Payne Quotes
The best actors are always the ones who've directed as well, as they understand all the problems you face.
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During the nineteenth century, men died believing in the cause of royalty or republicanism. In reality, much of their sacrifice was rendered on the altar of the new nationalism.
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I wrote 'White Teeth' in the late nineties. I didn't really feel trepidatious about it. It was a different time.
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I like a quiet life.
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Our games are not always the best, but they are exciting, which is what people love to see.
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You don't create jobs by passing bills, you create jobs by cutting taxes.
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There is definitely a sense that when you, as a CIA ops officer... are handling assets, they are delivering to you their trust and their well-being. And you feel very protective of them, even if they're not very nice people.
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Why am I such a Euro-enthusiast? Because I knew it was an anchor of democracy.
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Never give up, have the passion. Don't be afraid.
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The hottest look for a night out is a deep side part. If that part is not at least three inches in length, then start over. The wider the part, the more open your eyes appear. It is an alluring and seductive look that will keep your date's attention the entire night.
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I came up during the 'Star Wars' generation and that was sort of the thing I plugged into much more. It was a little before my time and I think it was sort of grappling with these intellectual ideas that were a little advanced for my young mind. At the time. But now I have a much deeper appreciation for it.
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Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.
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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
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There are many facts showing that Putin's people enriched themselves by using power mechanisms so that's why for them losing power means losing their fortunes.
Garry Kasparov -
You are exactly what you seem, and so you always assume that other people are, too.
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They more adeptly bend the willow's branches who have experience of the willow's roots.
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Lasker mouthed, 'Trust him,' and Max sighed. Trust a lawyer? It flew in the face of his most cherished principles.
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RADIO – DADA DIX whose monumental painting 'Barricade' now lost created such a sensation in Dresden
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Just put in another goto, and then it'll be readable.
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If I were not a king, I would be a university man; and if it were so that I must be a prisoner, if I might have my wish, I would desire to have no other prison than that library [the Bodleian].
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Music will always be my No. 1 passion, but I don't have to be doing it professionally. It's not really about that for me anymore. I feel like I don't have to look at it as a career. I can just rest in it and just be.
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You can't have it both ways. You can't tell me that you're taxed enough already, and that you want constitutional government and then in the next breath say, 'Bring me home some bacon.' The pig has been picked clean.
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'War does not call for judgment,' I said, 'merely survival.'
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The best actors are always the ones who've directed as well, as they understand all the problems you face.
