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?'
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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I had to face a lot coming through this journey, a lot of sacrifices, difficulties, challenges, and injuries.
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As patients and consumers, we are better informed today about our health care than any previous generation.
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I hate camping, but I love summer camp.
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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.
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People love a good story, even if it's a story that has very little truth to it.
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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.
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I'm more offended when someone's killed on television than when there's something that's sensuous or sexual. So what?
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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.
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It is God who gives us the opportunity to win and to get victories.
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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.
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I like heels and make-up.
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I love wine tasting in Napa. I don't have a huge collection, but the bottles I do have are special.
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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.
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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.
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Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began.
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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!'
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There's something very simple and contemplative about 'John Wick' - what is interesting is that it looks like it was based on an Akira Kurosawa movie.
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The ultimate part that I want to play in my life is Jimi Hendrix, so I guess I'm drawn to music even though I can't sing or dance very well.
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Then, certainly, to be a Christian is to love God above all, and our neighbour as ourselves.
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Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.
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For a satyagrahi brigade only those are eligible who believe in ahimsa and satya.
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Quite a few plays I have written have an implicit critique of capitalism in that, if you follow it through to its end, what happens to the people who are left behind?
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You look at how many years you have left, and you start to think: 'How many more films do I have in me?'
