Alexander Payne Quotes
The most heinous shift in American films is that they reinforce good things like 'couples' and 'relationships.'
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
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I'm such a stereotypical female learner in that I love social studies and love literature, and I always struggled with math and science.
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My manager's biggest dream is for me to be on Letterman. She says, 'Oh, Maggie, will you promise me you'll be on 'Letterman?' What can I say? I just tell her I can't promise, but I'll try my best.
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The struggle to get weapons is continuous, but the United States will aid us, if it finds Israel displaying a willingness for peace.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
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I've lived in New York for a really long time.
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It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.
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Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
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The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.
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Once there was a boy so meek and modest, he was awarded a Most Humble badge. The next day, it was taken away because he wore it. Here endeth the lesson.
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I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.
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This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.
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I always felt more emotionally attached to Cambodia than I did to Vietnam.
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I actually felt like I was starting a new career as a news reporter while playing in 'Pinocchio.'
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After I'd been in college for a couple years I'd read Shakespeare and Frost and Chaucer and the poets of the Harlem Renaissance. I'd come to appreciate how gorgeous the English language could be. But most fantasy novels didn't seem to make the effort.
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I've never been a guy that's consistently hit home runs. It's always seemed to come, like, three or four in a week or two, and then I'll shut it down for a couple of weeks.
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Since the Pentagon underestimated the number of troops required after the end of hostilities, we were not prepared to prevent looting or to guard hundreds of weapons dumps spread throughout the country.
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You have to feel good about yourself.
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The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
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Of course, today at the Karolinska Institute, I am working with some top experts - even some Nobel prize winners. They have the latest news and I have the technique.
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The most heinous shift in American films is that they reinforce good things like 'couples' and 'relationships.'
