Alexander Payne Quotes

I'm hoping one day I can make one really good film.

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• When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't ask why. You just count your blessings and go with it.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Good
  • Why
  • Pretty

• Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Different
  • You
  • Mean

• I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Life
  • Work
  • Live

• We shook up the industry with our landscape-changing deal to acquire Time Warner, the logical next step in our strategy to bring together world-class content with best-in-class distribution which will drive innovation and more choice for consumers.

  

  Randall L. Stephenson
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• Around my house, I won't even speak to my family unless they first address me by my official Berzerker name, Godred Crovan, Victor of Sky-Hill and Ruler of Man and the Isles. And now that I think of it, that's probably why nobody speaks to me unless it's time to feed the dogs or take out the garbage.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Time
  • Family
  • Why

• It gives me immense pleasure to be trustworthy, faithful, and true – to have the kind of romantic bond that inspires this.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • True
  • Romantic
  • Pleasure

• I eat vegetarian a lot. I buy only fresh ingredients and cook from scratch - that way, when I feel like snacking and look in my fridge, it's: 'Oh, baby carrots or chocolate soy pudding. Take your pick.'

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Baby
  • Look
  • Chocolate

• The homosexual community has more acceptance in America than it ever has, and the suicide rate is as high as it's always been.

  

  Randall Terry
  • America
  • High
  • Community

• I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.

  

  Tanya Roberts
  • Ugly
  • Reached
  • Puberty

• I think that if writers are tempted to do other things, they ought to go do other things. They should not write if they don't feel like it. I say this as a competitor. I am not interested in encouraging people who are in competition with me.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Competition
  • Writers
  • Encouraging

• I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.

  

  Harold Washington
  • Want
  • Really
  • Mayor

• Take seriously the traditions, the Christian roots, and all the values that are the basis of the civilisation of Europe.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Christian
  • Values
  • Roots

• If we look at the fact that record covers are essentially advertisements for the music, we acknowledge a function and purpose to draw in the prospective buyer.

  

  Beck
  • Music
  • Purpose
  • Look

• Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are several, at least one of them - is not especially intent on preventing suffering, whether it is indifferent to suffering or actually rejoices in it.

  

  Walter Kaufmann
  • World
  • Purpose
  • Suffering

• Our duty was to try and find the Japanese fleet. We never did find the Japanese fleet and I am awfully glad, because they had attacked us there with six carriers, three battleships, 10 or 15 cruisers, and about 20 destroyers.

  

  Barney Ross
  • Japanese
  • Attacked
  • Destroyers

• Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Great
  • Men
  • Greatness

• It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • More
  • Praise
  • Train

• Design must be functional, and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained.

  

  Ferdinand Porsche
  • Design
  • Without
  • Visual

• From the very first inkling of a concept, founders need to gather a target group of five to ten potential users to begin the feedback loop. We all think we know how the market will react to new ideas, but actual users live with the pros and cons of the existing market conditions every day. They are the market experts.

  

  Jay Samit
  • Live

• When I was a teenager, reading for me was as normal, as unremarkable as eating or breathing. Reading gave flight to my imagination and strengthened my understanding of the world, the society I lived in, and myself. More importantly, reading was fun, a way to live more than one life as I immersed myself in each good book I read.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• It would be naïve to imagine that any analysis of experience is dependent on pattern expressed in language. Any concept, whether or not it forms part of the system of grammatical categories, can be conveyed in any language. If a notion is lacking in a given series, it implies a different configuration and not a lack of expressive power.

  

  Edward Sapir
  • Different
  • Experience
  • Power

• Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.

  

  Christopher Lasch
  • Marriage
  • Improvement

• Henceforth, the United States may have to determine how to cope with regional coalitions that seek to push America out of Eurasia, thereby threatening America's status as a global power.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • May
  • Power
  • America

• I'm hoping one day I can make one really good film.

  

  Alexander Payne
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