Alexander Payne Quotes
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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For me, baseball is about, again, the team winning.
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Money often determines not only who gets elected, but what gets done. Which voices do lawmakers listen to, the banks or home owners, coal companies, or asthma sufferers, the CEOs or the unemployed?
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I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.
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Second place is just the first place loser.
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Working with people from all walks of life, from full-time moms to CEOs at large companies, I've distilled many universal truths about success. There's a secret I've learned that works quite well at helping you to achieve what you want: Decide what you want.
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I do go into things thinking, 'Right. I'm going to enjoy this.'
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One of the most important roles of our journalists is to be watchdogs.
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I believe nobody is stronger than the state. So the state would be strong, and we have to work altogether to make the strength of the state.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.
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My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.
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My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.
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When I chose Mississippi State, of course I dreamed about being a big-time college football player. But I'm so grateful that actually became a reality - and it became a reality in a small town.
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In real life, I'm pretty much an eternal optimist.
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I hate how late we have our Olympic Trials, always have.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me.
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I shouldn't toot my own horn, but he who doth not toot his own horn alloweth it to remain untooteth.
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Future historians trying to determine what it was like to be alive in fin de millennium America should read the last two decades of O. Henry and Best American short-story collections.
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I was a huge horror fan, especially in my teenage years. Back then, there were a lot of Italian horror movies - some zombie, some just really strange movies that made no sense. I was really into shock and gore.
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It's a perfectly valid position to not like Shakespeare.
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There is something transformative if you're a black person cheering in a theater and turn to see a white person cheering for the same thing you are.
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I always wanted 'Sideways' to be like a great 1960s Italian film.
