Alexander Payne Quotes
When I'm shooting, I don't care who the star is. I have an actor playing a part, and I'm serving the script, not serving anyone's career.
Quotes to Explore
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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I don't care if you are for having Mexico pay for the border wall, or you want to repeal and replace Obamacare, or if you want women to have complete access to reproductive rights - I don't care. The fact is, if you don't get the nuclear issue right, none of the other ones matter.
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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When you write a play, you work out like a musician on a piece of music. You find all the rhythms and the melody and the harmonies and take them as they come.
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I'm 20 years old, and I still love love. I hope I'm sweet. Just your everyday girl.
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My most cherished desire is to help our women come out of their routine chores and infuse in them the indefatigable spirit of adventure.
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I wouldn't just have other people write songs and me go out and sing it. I would sit down with a guitar and write 11 or 12 good songs for an album and that is gonna take a long time.
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We must defend what we have achieved so far.
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The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.
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It is so expensive to take care of my hair and keep it looking like I was born with it, when my real hair is the color of rat fur.
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I know I'm never going to be as successful as my dad, but I get bored doing nothing. I couldn't go from vacation to vacation and have no motivation.
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If people think they've found my biggest weakness, let them try to take advantage of it.
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I just grew up watching a lot of movies. I'm attracted to this genre and that genre, this type of story, and that type of story. As I watch movies I make some version of it in my head that isn't quite what I'm seeing - taking the things I like and mixing them with stuff I've never seen before.
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I love all sorts of music. I'm really into Damian Rice and Amos Lee.
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It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which warrants slavery.
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I consider my education to be the first 10 years of my career.
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I care very much what the fans think. I'm starting to loosen my grip on caring about what critics say, because I think that critics care about what fans think of them, too, so there's a little bit of a refraction there, through that glass.
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Global issues require common responses: Only together we can create the conditions to defeat Daesh and al Qaeda, block channels for terrorist financing, tackle foreign terrorist fighters.
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No one can look bad when you've been lit for six hours.
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Because of Rudy Giuliani's policies of reducing crime in New York City, tens of thousands of black men, women, and children are alive today that wouldn't have been otherwise.
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My vacations last one hour. Then I get bored, impatient.
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I would like for people to hear my music and hear/realize that people and experiences are deeper than what's at face value. Hopefully, with the span of my career, I can try to convey that in more ways than one.
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When I saw Arnold say that he didn't need a union, because people in his position don't need it, I thought, this is a very naive way to present yourself. It's also kinda dumb about making movies. It doesn't realize how the union movement even helps the star.
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When I'm shooting, I don't care who the star is. I have an actor playing a part, and I'm serving the script, not serving anyone's career.
