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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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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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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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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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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I love things on the decline because that's really the natural progression of our lives. We're born, we're feisty for the first couple of years, and then the inevitable decline begins.
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My mom raised me with the idea of doing public service, and I definitely want to go in that direction. But I also want to follow in my dad's entrepreneurial footsteps.
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You tax Mexico? The president of the United States is going to tax Mexico to get a wall for the United States of America? I'm pointing out the absurdity of a lot of these comments.
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The common thread in all my projects is 'girls being awesome.' Can we make that a genre?
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I have always been the girl who keeps on trying. I try! I try!
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My readers have to work with me to create the experience. They have to bring their imaginations to the story. No one sees a book in the same way, no one sees the characters the same way. As a reader you imagine them in your own mind. So, together, as author and reader, we have both created the story.
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I come from Paisley, the same town as David Sneddon, who won 'Fame Academy.' When he was late for his homecoming reception in the town hall, they held an impromptu talent show. I ended up singing some songs, and that's how I was discovered.
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On 'Shrek,' Eddie Murphy was locked in as the donkey before we'd even designed the donkey.
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I don't want to do 'Hamlet.' I don't want to do Robert Redford roles or Mel Gibson roles or Kevin Costner roles, because I'm not going to be good at them.
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I never wanted money worries to slow me down or make me take a job I didn't want.
