Alexander Payne Quotes
A book suggests a whole world and story that I could have never thought of in a million years.
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I love Harlem, it's like a second home to me.
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If I want popularity, I go to a chef's convention.
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Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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It's interesting to have two totally unlikable characters as the love interests on a show.
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The man for me is the cherry on the pie. But I'm the pie and my pie is good all by itself. Even if I don't have a cherry.
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For the last seven years, I have been racing the best in the world and making my way through the ranks. I am in that spot where I have got a real opportunity to produce something. I am not going to take it for granted because I know those guys will step it up.
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How do you be a 45-year-old man in a rock band, do it well, keep your dignity and not become a parody of yourself? I don't think it will be simple.
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I think that's one of the most unique and potentially powerful things about reddit - people come for the news, and stay for the community.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
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You need tremendous spirituality to stop yourself falling into the abyss.
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I can do whatever I want.
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I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
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I don't wanna sound pretentious talking about myself.
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Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.
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I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.
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I met Powel Crosley at an All-Star Game in 1935. He was familiar, of course, with our winning record at Rochester. We seemed to hit it off immediately, and the following year, when he was looking for a successor to Larry MacPhail, he thought of me.
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I was doing experimental noise-based music and I learned a number of things about performance. I was playing small shows - sometimes without a PA - where people couldn't really hear me so I relied a lot on physicality and a sense of discomfort and risk.
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After a long time spent learning how to write as a woman instead of as an honorary man, I was able to come back to Earthsea and write the next three books in another and newer tradition: that of questioning, rather than accepting, the gendering of power as male.
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When my father became vice president, I was a sophomore in high school. I'd do things like go on a run with my soccer team and purposely dodge the security van. Then my parents compromised with the Secret Service when I went to college. I just had a panic button in my dorm room, so if I pressed that, they'd be there within 2 or 3 minutes.
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Um, you know, they have every right to feel the way they do and things are great with me, as you see, I'm very, good shape now and on the ball. Things are happening.
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A book suggests a whole world and story that I could have never thought of in a million years.
