Alexander Payne Quotes
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I love fashion as an art; I love fashion as costume, as a character. I don't like dictates and the phoniness of appearance.
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The Government of Iraq also owes a debt to the American and coalition forces who are fighting the insurgency and helping put that country back together after decades of repression.
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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J has told me about his past. I know what happened and why. But he is the one person who made me believe in my talent and whatever happened in the past, he's been a wonderful manager to me.
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We began as restless and radical. Remember the spirit of 1997, but by the end of our time in office we had lost our way.
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There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.
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You might think the thinner version of yourself is going to be the most positive or confident, but that's not how it is for me. When I'm over 200 pounds, that's when I'm the most confident version of myself.
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Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers.
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I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.
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My mom has helped me nurture my interest and hone my talent.
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I was brought up in industrial south Lancashire, down the cobbled road from where LS Lowry (1887 - 1976) lived and painted.
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People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
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The Bauhaus strives to bring together all creative effort into one whole, to reunify all the disciplines of practical art - sculpture, painting, handicrafts, and crafts - as inseparable components of a new architecture.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.
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I always have to be writing.
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Life is full of happiness and tears; be strong and have faith.
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Anyone that makes me a quarter of a billion dollars, I like.
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When horror films are made in times of political strife, I think they're not made with an instinct to add to the chaos but to bring shape to it.
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He must deny his right to himself, and he must realize who Jesus Christ is before he will bring himself to do it. Beware of refusing to go to the funeral of your own independence.
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Faith isn't about having everything figured out ahead of time; faith is about following the quiet voice of God without having everything figured out ahead of time.
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I got five kids, and my oldest is a documentary film maker and camera man, and still photographer.
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Futurists falter because they belittle the power of religious paradigms, deeming them either too literal or too fantastic.
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What is filmmaking but groping in the dark?
