Alexander Payne Quotes
I think if you watch most of my films with the sound off, you could still tell what's going on.
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After I left college, I went to work at the Royal Opera House in London, which became a real catalyst for me because it made me realize that I was interested in cinema and in the way life is thrust at you. So I started making films.
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It really is, to see that this kind of music is still so popular.
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In Washington, the translation of E Pluribus Unum has been lost. The belief that we are one nation - united in purpose - caring about and for one another is no longer the practice.
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The Analytical Engine does not occupy common ground with mere 'calculating machines.' It holds a position wholly its own, and the considerations it suggests are more interesting in their nature.
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In the Senate, you can become one of the nation's leading voices on the issues.
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People work hard.
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It's fun being paid to read stuff and air your opinion about it - pretty much a dream job for a writer.
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My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.
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Being able to go into Wimbledon and be part of an amazing atmosphere is special.
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I believe as musicians and artists we have an obligation to our souls. What that is? Only each one of us knows. I can speak for myself and say my obligation is to be happy. When I'm happy, I make great music. When I'm unhappy and my heart is broken, I may make brokenhearted music, but it still sounds good.
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There's no way to reconcile Islam with Christianity. This difference of opinion admits of compromise as much as a coin toss does.
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I wish I was a bit shorter, as I think shorter people have better walks. Freddie Fox, the actor, is shorter than me and has an amazing gait; and Tom Cruise has a brilliant run. I'm just gangly.
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Of course, a law that is selectively used is in one aspect even worse than a law that is generally used because it puts a lot of power in individuals' hands and makes government a rule, not of laws, but of people.
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I think all the bad blood started when Geffen released a greatest hits package of my solo stuff.
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I believe that all brands will become storytellers, editors and publishers, all stores will become magazines, and all media companies will become stores. There will be too many of all of them. The strongest ones, the ones who offer the best customer experience, will survive.
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But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days we have to consider ourselves as being in society... but in the end one knows one is alone, that one lives at the heart of a solitude.
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Thug: You're gonna give us $10,000, or we're gonna break both your legs.
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Not since the Black Panthers sailed into their Upper East Side tea party has there been so daffy an exercise in radical chic.
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And I find - I'm 63, and my capacity to be by myself and just spend time by myself hasn't diminished any. That's the necessary part of being a writer, you better like being alone.
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Steve Nicol never gives more than 120 per cent.
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When Liza Minelli was a child, she used to sit on my lap and call me Uncle Sammy.
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It is not always a matter of wild ovations and legendary performances. Sometimes you are just happy to get through an opera without trouble.
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Governments and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time.
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I think if you watch most of my films with the sound off, you could still tell what's going on.
