Alexander Payne Quotes

In the moment of making films, I want to share my observations of life, not of other films.

Alexander Payne

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I play- it's kind of like a slice-of-life, LA women in their forties, playing forty kind of what's their friendship like, and what's their life like and so I just play one of the four friends.

Joan Cusack

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I want pockets in my dresses. I put pockets in everything! I want pockets inside my pockets.

Melissa McCarthy

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Touch is one of the most intuitive things in the world.

Jefferson Han

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One of the reasons it is considered such a privilege to sit on a Man Booker jury is because it is famously rigorous. The judging is not a gig for lightweights. Not only are all five judges expected to have read all 155 books from beginning to end, but they have to be able to talk fluently about every book at length.

Amanda Foreman

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When you're a boxer, there is a lot of downtime and long periods of inactivity.

Sugar Ray Leonard

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A dream is better than obligation.

Riyad Mahrez

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We are anxious because we do not know what roles to pursue, what principles for action to believe in. Our individual anxiety, somewhat like that of the nation, is a basic confusion and bewilderment about where we are going.

Rollo May

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The vast majority of the online crime cases, we don't even know which continent the attacks are coming from. And even if we are able to find online criminals, quite often there is no outcome. The local police don't act, or if they do, there's not enough evidence, or for some reason we can't take them down.

Mikko Hypponen

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I first went to Cambodia in 2002, primarily, as it turned out, to change diapers. My wife had work in Phnom Penh, and thus left with her driver and translator early each morning and returned later each night, while I took care of our firstborn son, who was 2 at the time.

Michael Paterniti

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When tempest tossed, embrace chaos.

Dean Koontz

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I might not be here if it wasn't for the research and the technology that March of Dimes provided for my family and me.

Ally Brooke

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In recounting our woes, we often soothe them.

Pierre Corneille

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