Alexander Payne Quotes
Hollywood films have become a cesspool of formula and it's up to us to try to change it... I feel like a preacher! But it's really true. I feel personally responsible for the future of American cinema. Me personally.
Quotes to Explore
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The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
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I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.
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I'm a huge Disney nut. I have been since I was a little kid.
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In the music world, ageism is a big issue. It's about youth and youth culture. There's no other art form that I know that requires you to be a certain age.
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From Syria even to Rome I fight with wild beasts, by land and sea, by night and by day, being bound amidst ten leopards, even a company of soldiers, who only grow worse when they are kindly treated.
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Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.
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My dad's name is Vernon and my mom liked the initials, V. V. My sisters and I got named Victoria, Valerie and Vincent so we'd be V. V.'s, too. But, then when you start getting pets' names that start with a 'v,' it's a little embarrassing.
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It takes the pressure off of your better players to know they don't always have to be on top of their game for the team to do well.
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I know I am a writer; it is the only thing I am sure of.
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Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
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I do a lot of TV stuff, but I also turn a lot down - it's got to be an adventure.
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I train as hard as I can every time I train and I do extra training every day and I've done that since I was a young boy.
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I used to hate working out - until I learned how to do it properly.
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What's really interesting and fun to explore is not just the falling in love and everything being great, but the obstacles to falling in love.
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Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn.
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I have the ability to create and be in touch with God. I can't change bread and wine into body and blood, but I can take the scum or the slime of the earth and make it into a man or woman.
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As a result of the asthma I was sent to school in the country, and only visited Sydney for brief, violently asthmatic sojourns on my way to a house we owned in the Blue Mountains.
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Sometimes I still go round the house making weird noises and stuff, so in that aspect, I haven't grown up!
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People who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.
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Happiness itself is sufficient excuse. Beautiful things are right and true; so beautiful actions are those pleasing to the gods. Wise men have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it. The answer to the last appeal of what is right lies within a man's own breast. Trust thyself.
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Hollywood films have become a cesspool of formula and it's up to us to try to change it... I feel like a preacher! But it's really true. I feel personally responsible for the future of American cinema. Me personally.
