Alexander Payne Quotes
There is an audience out there for literate films - slower, more observant, more human films, and they deserve to be made.
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I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.
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We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.
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Pure art is a noble pursuit. Applied art is a business. That's one reason design firms have been so eager of late to add consulting and manufacturing to their core aesthetic competencies.
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Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life, great friends.
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Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.
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People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.
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The future will be better tomorrow.
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I had an addiction to sugar growing up - major, major, major.
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Let's face it; by and large math is not easy, but that's what makes it so rewarding when you conquer a problem, and reach new heights of understanding.
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I was shocked when I heard that Farghadani had been sentenced to 12 years and nine months in prison on spurious charges, as Amnesty International notes, of 'spreading propaganda against the system,' 'insulting members of the parliament through paintings' and 'insulting the Supreme Leader' with her cartoon.
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While most philanthropists tend to flock together and build their teams around friends, family, or others who happen to be retired or with a lot of free time on their hands, a great entrepreneur knows that success is directly related to the quality and talents of their team.
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I don't have any regrets at all.
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Business is all about risk taking and managing uncertainties and turbulence.
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If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won't see why we go.
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I'm better off working as opposed to lying around.
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When I was growing up, it was a lot of punk and hardcore music going on in legion halls and firehouses, and we'd play those shows, and it was very Jersey. It was very suburban, and there's just a great pride there.
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Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.
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I could live on challah bread, the Jewish kosher bread, quite happily.
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William Stillman's Autism and the God Connection is a sensitive and illuminating work which could dramatically change how we view autism.
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The failure and the success both believe in their hearts that they have accurately balanced points of view, the success because he's succeeded, and the failure because he's failed. The successful man tells his son to profit by his father's good fortune, and the failure tells his son to profit by his father's mistakes.
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“I then swept the crumbs into my palm and opened one of the empty drawers and poured them in. I was working on the theory that if I collected enough crumbs, eventually I could make my own Twix. It's good to have a purpose in life.”
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Anarchy would suggest you're not cooperating. Permaculture is urging complete cooperation between each other and every other thing, animate and inanimate.
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We usually evaluate creative process in terms of how much feeling or thinking was behind the work or how well the work was done. Isn't there any other way of appreciating the process? What if the standard of excellence was how fully present the artist was during the process?
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There is an audience out there for literate films - slower, more observant, more human films, and they deserve to be made.
