Alexander Payne Quotes
I think a badly crafted, great idea for a new film with a ton of spelling mistakes is just 100 times better than a well-crafted stale script.
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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
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When I'm out on the stage, it gives me this rush and anything that's on my mind and everything I'm going through is forgotten about.
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I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.
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My type of basketball is about how to create space, how to maneuver, how to get your shot off.
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For a lot of pop performers, fame and celebrity is part of the job. But for singer-songwriters, no one really cares.
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One of the things that's interesting is that the PC has always had a huge amount of scalability. It was sort of the wild dog that moved into Australia and killed all the local life because it could just adapt. There used to be these dedicated devices, like dedicated word processors.
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People throw things at me sometimes, at big festivals.
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I have the necessary lack of tact.
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I didn't work for Jimmy Carter all those years to go to cocktail parties. I was there as a political adviser, a short-order cook, to work on topical matters.
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I use Graf Edmonton for boots and John Wilson blades.
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I live in, literally, the same home when I was swiping my first bank card and wondering if I'd have to put back the Charmin. We still don't have a dishwasher. My mom has done all these gardens so now my house looks like the garden shack in the middle of Versailles.
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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
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Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
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I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.
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A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
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Looking back... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at all the things that have happened in the world, it seems very small.
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Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.
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As far being the face of boxing, I don't like to name myself that. I leave that up to the media and the fans.
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Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, and concepts for the things themselves.
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In rural parts of China, it's like stepping back into the era of my grandfather or great-grandfather - not much has changed.
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Immigrants use debt intelligently. They understand the difference between active debt: creating a business, or something to make business better, and dead debt: buying that new sports car or the 60 inch television. Those things don't lead to the good life. They delay getting it.
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The grave's a fine and quiet place but none I think do finish their books from there.
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As a child, I always liked dressing up and getting into character, and actors are lucky in being able to retain that playfulness, though we do seem to find it hard to grow up.
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I think a badly crafted, great idea for a new film with a ton of spelling mistakes is just 100 times better than a well-crafted stale script.
