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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Both my grandparents were officers in World War Two, and I would be personally offended if somebody distorted their achievements.
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The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.
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The claim that SpongeBob makes your child dumber is a causal claim. If you do X, Y will happen. To prove that, you'd have to show that if you forced the children in the no-TV households to watch SpongeBob and changed nothing else about their lives, they would do worse in school.
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But what was interesting about what the Who did is that we took things which were happening in the pop genre and represent them to people so that they see them in a new way. I think the best example is Andy Warhol's work, the image of Marilyn Monroe or the Campbell's soup can.
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I like comedy when its mixed with action, it's just so much fun to do comedy with a bit of action, its fun to watch and also so much fun to do.
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A book suggests a whole world and story that I could have never thought of in a million years.
