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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When people are poor, they find ways of making things taste like fish.
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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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The script is always the main preparation for me. Sometimes you have a period piece where you have to research around it, but if the writers have done their homework well enough, the information is all in the script.
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That's what I care about is the people I work with and representing them and helping to make their music apparent for the rest of the world.
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The benefit of writing a collection - as opposed to a novel - is that I'm able to have some version of the war in each story without having to comment on its all-encompassing nature. Turn the page and here are new characters and new situations, but the war remains... Isn't that how life has been for us for over a decade?
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Cyborg represents not just people who are differently abled: he is also a representation of the black community and people of colour within the Justice League. Being able to don both those mantles with the integrity which that character would need to be portrayed and was adhered to was something that was very important.
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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.
