Alexander Payne Quotes
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I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.
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I did Our Daily Bread for King and that made me popular in the Soviet Union; King was amused by that.
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The kind of classic pose of a female model is to look kind of sexy and a bit annoyed.
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When friends ask for a second cup they are open to conversation.
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Why pay a fee for Internet content when a million free sites are just a click away? There's no incentive until people are too addicted to the Net to turn off their computers, yet are bored with what's available.
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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Dr. Dre, my oldest brother, he paved the way for me and Snoop to get a chance to get into the studio. I asked him to show me how to work the MPC-60... I was about maybe 17, 18, right around there.
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Women would be disproportionately affected by the privatization of social security. It is one of the most important safety nets for American women in old age, or in times of disability, to insure financial income for their families.
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I commanded an Army unit, and I placed the highest priority on a commander's authority to lead, manage, and discipline the men and women under his or her command within the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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I can never let the guy across from me be in better shape. I have to be the best-conditioned guy.
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I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That's what makes me interested in them, that they didn't present themselves as idols; they were just doing their jobs.
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I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I see something different.
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I never look at how many songs I have or how many girls are there in a movie. If I like my character, I play it.
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I can speak a little bit of Hindi but understand every word.
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Good material is good material.
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I'm cold in summer. I'm the coldest person ever! It's very ironic I'm never cold in the scripts. Every time I'm shooting, if you don't see a part of me, there are hot water bottles there.
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Marxism conceives of the new system of socialism as the necessary outcome of all previous history made possible and necessary only by that previous history.
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Sometimes I'm scared of being Ozzy Osbourne. But it could have been worse. I could have been Sting.
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I was excited that my films would finally see the light of day and people would see them. But I never imagined that such nice things would be said about a lot of my films.
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To me, democratic socialism means democracy. It means creating a government that represents all of us, not just the wealthiest people in the country.
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It is essential that we realize once and for all that man is much more of a sex creature than a moral creature. The former is inherent, the other is grafted on.
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There's a book called 'The Shack' - it had a lot to do with me coming full circle, meeting my birth mother. Awhile back, my birth mom and my adopted mom came to my show together, and it was pretty surreal.
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The biggest fear I have is to die with regrets, and of course that will come true.
