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Alexander Payne Quotes

That's how I like to do it with actors, have them really go for it and I'll tell them when it's too much. It's always easier to bring it back then to push it further.

Alexander Payne

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: american
Birth: February 10, 1961

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Push Back Too Much Go Go For It

I know the rewards of focusing on innovation and outcomes as opposed to hours. I've been fortunate to work with brilliant entrepreneurs who didn't have years of experience, and yet they changed the world.

Maynard Webb

Work Innovation Experience World

Omelettes, I'd say, are my secret weapon in terms of diet: I love them, they're nice and easy to make, they're very nutritious, and they're low in carbs.

Michael Bisping

Love Diet Easy Nice Say Secret

Let's not dismiss or attack individual ideas as being inadequate before we have had a chance to assess their positive effect as part of a whole solution.

John Thune

Positive Ideas Chance Solution Whole

Politics is tricky; it cuts both ways. Every time you make a choice, it has unintended consequences.

Stone Gossard

Time Politics You Choice Tricky

I'm ready to help China realize its football dream. I think China can be a major player on the world stage one day.

Ronaldo

Day Football World Think Help Dream

You know, when we get to a point in this country where dissent is extremism, we've turned, I think, a very dark page in our history. And I don't want us to go there. I encourage Americans and I'm - right now, to go to these town hall meetings, to - to talk to your Congressmen, the people that you elected.

Michael Steele

History People Think Meetings You

Kids are appendages on so many family sitcoms. They'll come in, they'll make half a joke, and then they're like, 'OK, gotta go to school,' or 'I'm going to my room.' And then you never see them again.

Jason Jones

Family School You Go Never See

I'd rather starve than not have what I really want to eat. I'm good at preparation.

Johnny Mathis

Good Preparation Want Eat Rather

Yes, but more than being a designer, I'm more of a stylist, because I don't sew and I don't sketch, but I'm good at putting things together, choosing things that are chic and glossing over the aesthetics of things.

Dita Von Teese

Good Together Sketch More Over Yes

On 'Curb Your Enthusiasm,' it takes almost a year to get 10 shows written. It always reminds me of my old yeshiva days, where you used to sit over a piece of Talmud and analyze everything that was going on.

David Steinberg

Me Enthusiasm Year You Everything

Agencies must know who they are accountable to. If the agencies know who they are accountable to but we cannot say who they are accountable to, then really it is a very sad situation that is bound to be misused. It is bound to affect human rights.

Asma Jahangir

Sad Situation Know Say Human Rights

I'm learning how to live in the present and be grateful for what's working rather than look for the 'what's not working' piece.

Ali MacGraw

Learning Live Grateful Present Look