Alexander Payne Quotes
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There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.
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Inspired by Alex Haley's 'Roots,' at the age of 11 I began a handwritten Middle Passage story called 'Lawdy, Lawdy, Make Us Free.' I was raised by civil rights activists with a very strong sense of racial history and consciousness.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
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I am an untrained musician and a common man's singer.
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In essence, capitalist systems are a mechanism by which economies may generate growth in knowledge - with much uncertainty in the process, owing to the incompleteness of knowledge.
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To be a great actor, you really don't need to go to acting school or learn dance classes or work on your body. You have to be intelligent. You have to draw on a lot of emotions that you go through in life that you can tap into once you work on a set.
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All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.
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It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
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Kevin Costner told me that 'True' was his and his wife's song. I'm not sure if that's a good thing because they split up soon after.
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The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.
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I just want my family to be safe. Because I am sometimes polarizing, I fear for their safety.
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The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!
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I think that Americans, they love comfort more than Europeans. Americans created the T-shirt, the sweat pants, and they create the best sporting shoes.
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I just don't see where I could possibly fit in directing a feature.
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My eyes aren't special, my nose isn't special, my mouth isn't special.
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Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
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It is up to God to reveal a religion, but up to us to understand and realise it.
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Growing up, I was a dancer. I wanted to be a choreographer.
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I like to be in New York. Le Corbusier described it in the 1930s as a 'wonderful catastrophe.' It is still a wonderful catastrophe, but inspiring.
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Each voice carries a portion of value, no matter how unpalatable or distasteful that voice may be: no one person, government, ideology, transnational, or religious institution can own and dominate the whole.
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Old age is an ordeal, of flesh and mind. Of winding down, of slowing down, of dying cells. It's accepting the loss of physical attractiveness and replacing it with the power and wisdom that can only come with old age.
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This is love, moving to where the money is, and all the while a volcano or an ex-girlfriend might blow the whole thing to hell, as the Americans say. As everybody says.
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I never wanted money worries to slow me down or make me take a job I didn't want.
