Alexander Payne Quotes

You look at how many years you have left, and you start to think: 'How many more films do I have in me?'

Alexander Payne

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• Horrible things happen when you run out of other people's money, and life and work becomes a burden when there is no reward for your effort.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• I had to face a lot coming through this journey, a lot of sacrifices, difficulties, challenges, and injuries.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Journey
  • Challenges
  • Face

• As patients and consumers, we are better informed today about our health care than any previous generation.

  

  Patricia Hewitt
  • Today
  • Health
  • Better

• I hate camping, but I love summer camp.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Hate
  • Summer
  • Camping

• I was working at the NSA. I don't know, I was just bored. I just knew that's not what I was supposed to be doing with my life.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Life
  • Doing
  • My Life

• People love a good story, even if it's a story that has very little truth to it.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Love
  • Truth

• It makes me forget that I'm not going to be a major star and lead female in films whether it was 20 years ago, 10 years ago, five or in the future.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Future
  • Me
  • Star

• I'm more offended when someone's killed on television than when there's something that's sensuous or sexual. So what?

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Television
  • More
  • Someone

• We live in bodies that are fearfully and wonderfully made, yet they are not immune to illness and pain. We have hearts that are capable of experiencing great love, but sometimes they get broken.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • For Her
  • For Him
  • Hearts

• It is God who gives us the opportunity to win and to get victories.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • God
  • Opportunity
  • Win

• Performers are the neediest people in the world. Unless you've been in that goldfish bowl - nobody can judge unless they've worn those shoes.

  

  Olivia Hussey
  • People
  • World
  • Judge

• I like heels and make-up.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Up
  • Like
  • Makeup

• L.A. is so big that if you don't actually live in Hollywood, you might as well be from a different planet.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Different
  • Live
  • You

• I love wine tasting in Napa. I don't have a huge collection, but the bottles I do have are special.

  

  Yuan Yuan Tan
  • Wine
  • Huge
  • Collection

• A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Man
  • Reading
  • Wife

• I didn't even realize that I was interested in film until I was in college, and since then, I've had a very uncertain and sort of lost decade.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Lost
  • College
  • Realize

• Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began.

  

  Ralph Adams Cram
  • End
  • Financial
  • Revolution

• I wept that all must die -'Yet Love,' I cried, 'doth live, and conquer death -'And Time passed by,And breathed on Love, and killed it with his breathEre Death was nigh.More bitter far than allIt was to know that Love could change and die -Hush! for the ages call'The Love of God lives through eternity,And conquers all!'

  

  Adelaide Anne Procter
  • Time
  • God
  • Live

• It seems to me that the testimonies, practically, have come into that shape, that it is not of any use to try to defend the erroneous claims that are now put forth for them.

  

  Uriah Smith

• Noah was this sort of patron saint in my life. When I finished Pi and I started to think about what was next, I was like, "Wow, it's interesting that no one has done a film of one of the greatest stories ever told." Even if you're not a Jew, a Muslim, or a Christian, you likely have a flood story in your culture.

  

  Darren Aronofsky
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Done

• Many people conceive of religion as something apart from everyday affairs of the world. They think of it in terms of ceremony or ritual or sermons and often it strikes them as being dull or not particularly interesting. Religion may be described in many ways. I like to think of it as a medicine, a healing medicine for the mind.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • People
  • Religion
  • Conceive

• I wouldn't want to stay in any place for longer than 10 years, honestly. It's good to travel and see what's happening in the world.

  

  Ash Koosha
  • World
  • Travel
  • Happening

• You look at how many years you have left, and you start to think: 'How many more films do I have in me?'

  

  Alexander Payne