Alexander Payne Quotes

In a sense, 'Schmidt' is the most Omaha of my films. But have I gotten it right? I'm not sure. Did Fellini get Rome right? Did Ozu get Tokyo right?

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• There are hours when I must force the novel out of my mind and be interested in the children.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Mind
  • Children
  • Force

• I can sing in front of people. I can go on a TV show, live, and not feel like I'm going to throw up.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• I'm associated with gospel music in the minds of millions of people.

  

  Pat Boone
  • People
  • Music
  • Minds

• Humans are insane. We kill our own people, starve our own people, sell them, work them to death, beat them, don't give them affordable/free/good healthcare, and let them live in misery, while a few of us have - we have all we want. We are evil.

  

  Faith Hunter
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• Generally my songs are just some riffs slung together as an excuse for a guitar solo.

  

  J Mascis
  • Together
  • Guitar
  • Some

• Making a movie is like an accelerated version of growing up with someone. You spend so many hours a day with each other, and you're putting your heart into this same effort.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Up
  • Heart
  • Movie

• At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • School
  • Friends
  • Only

• I'm lucky to come from a very musical family. If you put a record on and turn the volume up, there's a pretty good chance you'll have a lot of people dancing very quickly.

  

  Imelda May
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• It's not the name that makes the player. It's the player.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Player
  • Name
  • Makes

• Give the peasants neither life nor death.

  

  Ieyasu Tokugawa
  • Life
  • Death
  • Give

• I have always said that I want to finish my career with the Dolphins and this put me closer to that goal. I have been fortunate to break many personal records, but my overiding goal is to win a Super Bowl here in Miami.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Career
  • Goal
  • Win

• Too clever is dumb.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Dumb
  • Clever
  • Too

• Lebanon will be engulfed again in a huge power game that will last quite a long time. This is the tragic destiny of Lebanon.

  

  Walid Jumblatt
  • Time
  • Long
  • Power

• Nowadays, people always say, how come he's doing such young shows? But they never mention The Mod Squad. I was very proud of that show. It's the first time an African-American guy kissed a white girl.

  

  Aaron Spelling
  • People
  • Time
  • American

• I grew up in an acting family. I was heavily discouraged from doing it myself when I was young, which is the only responsible route to take with any child, because it's not necessarily the easiest of lives.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • Up
  • Family
  • Myself

• I was a stand-up comedian for 10 years, if you can believe it. And I gave it up at age 22.

  

  Samm Levine
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Age

• I've often felt I've been born out of my time, and when I started Fairground Attraction in the 1980s, I wanted to be a 1940s jazz singer.

  

  Eddi Reader
  • Time
  • Born
  • Jazz

• The book that made a lasting impression was the one my mother gave each of us when she decided we were ready for our first 'adult novel,' Lucy Maud Montgomery's 'The Blue Castle.'

  

  Hallie Ephron
  • She
  • Book
  • Mother

• Fortunately, good policy, true principles, and effective leadership work whenever they are tried. When we reduce government, balance budgets, and keep taxes as low as possible, states respond in a positive way.

  

  Brian Sandoval
  • Good
  • Work
  • True

• When Brian told me he grew up in New Mexico, I told him I thought it is cool that people from other countries play football. He corrected me on my geography and agreed to sit down with me anyway.

  

  Terry Bradshaw
  • People
  • Country
  • Football

• Saks helps to empower women through how they look and feel - and Bumble wants to give all women a platform to connect with other empowered women, whether that's in dating, friendship, or business.

  

  Whitney Wolfe Herd
  • Women
  • Business
  • Friendship

• I don't practice. It's a gift. It's talent. Obviously, I do it all the time so it's like I'm practicing, but that's just what I do. Sometimes I'll be in the studio flipping through beats and I'll do something quick and people will be like, "What the?!" It's natural! I don't need to be nice like that, I just do it.

  

  AraabMuzik
  • Talent
  • Studio
  • Practicing

• I never wanted to spend a month away from my life. One time I was out on the road for three weeks in a row and I when I came back someone had broken into my apartment and the water had evaporated from the toilet.

  

  Bill Burr
  • Water
  • Broken
  • Week

• In a sense, 'Schmidt' is the most Omaha of my films. But have I gotten it right? I'm not sure. Did Fellini get Rome right? Did Ozu get Tokyo right?

  

  Alexander Payne