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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I have noticed that my likes and dislikes do not create any great excitement. And how people try to get away when I attempt to talk!
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Disappointment is inevitable. But to become discouraged, there's a choice I make. God would never discourage me. He would always point me to himself to trust him. Therefore, my discouragement is from Satan. As you go through the emotions that we have, hostility is not from God, bitterness, unforgiveness, all of these are attacks from Satan.
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The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.
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I think of Bret Hart as somebody who held the Intercontinental championship like it was the World Heavyweight championship. Every title match he was in felt important, like it was the most important thing on the show. The way he carried himself and the matches he had, it was just everything I thought a champion should be.
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I always tell the younger film-makers and students: Do it like the painters used to...Study the old masters. Enrich your palette. Expand the canvas. There's always so much more to learn.
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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.
