Alexander Payne Quotes

I like to think of film-making not just as an act of personal self-aggrandisement but rather as an act of public service.

Alexander Payne

Service

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I'm just a Connecticut country boy. The people I've known, the changes of season, the call of the blue jay - when I'm away, all of them haunt me.

Gary Burghoff
- People
- Country
- Boy
I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

e. e. cummings
- Learning
- Dance
- Stars
A lot of places I go are dangerous, like Tel Aviv or Rio, but that never stops me from going there and putting on a show. I have good security. I don't worry about that.

Madonna Breakfast Club
- Good
- Worry
- Security
In order to lead a country or a company, you've got to get everybody on the same page and you've got to be able to have a vision of where you're going. America can't have a vision of health care for everybody, green economy, regulations - can't have a bunch of piece-meal activities. It's got to have a vision.

Jack Welch
- Country
- America
- Health
Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering.

Carl Hiaasen
- Book
- Name
- Profound
In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.

Warren Buffett
- World
- Military
- Financial