Alexander Payne Quotes
You begin a film more with questions than with direct intentions. It's more of an exploration and discovery.
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My work as an artist is completely separate from my work as a philanthropist.
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I'm more of an artist and a songwriter than I am a DJ. That word seems a little bit - well, it doesn't really describe what I do.
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We hear all around us to love ourselves, and one of the ways we can do that is to eat food that serves our body, but also for us to love the food we're eating.
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When your focus is social change and not financial change, why wouldn't you want to share that openly? Innovation only succeeds when it's shared.
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Hope is the raw material of losers.
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I have a lot of growing up to do, or a lot of growing down. I think that's probably more appropriate.
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I've learned, after 18 years of gathering information, to eat, then check in with my body - how do I feel? I've learned to eat whatever makes my body feel good. As a teenager, I was just so confused, overwhelmed by all the information.
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I think it is important to let your kids have independence and ownership. Let your kids do what they have a passion for.
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I'm engaged to Hollywood. If there's something I find I have to do, I'll do it. Otherwise, I'll just stay home and have a vacation.
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There is no bigger aphrodisiac than power.
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Pleasure does not equal happiness; it's part of happiness.
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I always try to look for the hidden face of the character, the hidden face that we all have.
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If I had different parents who were in it for the money, I might have a different perspective. But they really are artists; they intelligently approach each character and prepare in every sense of the word. I grew up in a world that had great discipline.
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America is an archipelago of tribes, a land where people form national families of kindred spirits.
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And sometimes you have to go above the written law, I believe.
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There's no ex out there who I'm not friends with today, and I'm extremely thankful for that.
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In a painting, you can't make out whether the artist painted the left eye before the right eye. In Chinese calligraphy, you can see the progression of the artist's stroke.
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Making money is certainly the one addiction I cannot shake.
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I want entrepreneurs to be engineers and scientists and designers; they don't necessarily have to be Internet entrepreneurs or retail entrepreneurs.
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During the mid-1980s dairy farmers decided there was too much cheap milk at the supermarket. So the government bought and slaughtered 1.6 million dairy cows. How come the government never does anything like this with lawyers?
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I have absolutely no doubt in my mind that the intelligence was genuine.
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I was in love with the idea of being in love with a woman way before I was actually in love with one.
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The American system is a beautiful and durable thing, but flawed. I would like to think that this decadence is not sustainable, whether in the eyes of the electorate or the eyes of whatever the local economy is built on; that would bring me hope.
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You begin a film more with questions than with direct intentions. It's more of an exploration and discovery.
