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 never go straight to the point if I can go the most difficult way. Why be simple when you can be complicated?
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I've been able to make films over the past 10 years but still maintain my anonymity.
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Know how to play the card of contempt. It is the most politic kind of revenge. For there are many of whom we should have known nothing if their distinguished opponents had taken no notice of them. There is no revenge like oblivion, for it is the entombment of the unworthy in the dust of their own nothingness.
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If you want to view paradise, simply look around and view it. Anything you want to, do it. Want to change the world? There's nothing to it.
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Tyrone, I think they're taking to festivals. I don't know which festivals it will be at. It's like a buddy picture. It's a couple of guys driving across the country and they get to a small town and they hit a guy. The guy turns out to be a drug smuggler.
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A book suggests a whole world and story that I could have never thought of in a million years.
