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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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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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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A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.
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I loved DreamWorks and Pixar, and I still love kids' films.
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War is a tragedy. It's not pretty, and in my opinion, there are no winners. Everybody's a victim, from the one who's suffering pain to the person inflicting it.
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We live in a world in which the only utopian visions arrive in commercial breaks: magical visions of an impossibly hospitable world, peopled by bright-eyed attractive men, women, children... Where nobody dies... In my worlds people died. And I thought that was honest. I thought I was being honest.
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My own American Dream was to serve my country as best I could and make a difference in America - and in the world.
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What I learned is, don't forget who you are, because that's what's going to make you a filmmaker.
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I'm not a food critic, and I'm not really an authority to write anything on food.
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A book suggests a whole world and story that I could have never thought of in a million years.
