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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If anyone wants to know what the definition of 'dope' means, it's: 'Definition of Public Enemy.'
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Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.
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Just as He had done with David, Samuel, and Joseph of the Old Testament, God took an innocent, unlearned boy, one still unsullied by the world and pliable to His divine will, and molded and shaped him into His chosen prophet.
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There are no secrets.
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You really just have to have a good attitude, challenge yourself, and you can accomplish great things.
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The most heinous shift in American films is that they reinforce good things like 'couples' and 'relationships.'
