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Alexander Payne Quotes

They say you can do honest, sincere work for decades, but you're given in general a 10-year period when what you do touches the zeitgeist - when you're relevant. And I'm aware of that, and I don't want my time to go by.

Alexander Payne

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Work Time You Go Say Want

I'm a lot more creative than people can imagine.

Jessica White

Creative People More Imagine Than

We need it to capture the energy of contemporary life.

John Eaton

Life Energy Capture Need

I grew up in northern California in a town called Fairfield, which is kind of exactly between San Francisco and Sacramento, a small suburb. And I'm the youngest of five children.

Tracy K. Smith

Children Small Kind California Up

Even when I'm sitting up in this glass castle, I still got my street soldiers telling me what's happening.

Tracy Morgan

Me Street Glass Sitting Soldiers Up

Like sugar and, oh - let's say the most tabloidy and gossipy reality television programs - credit is, for millions, genuinely addictive.

Tom Shales

Reality Credit Television Sugar Say

You can't control what's going to happen to the book you're about to publish.

Rumaan Alam

Control Book You Happen Going About

North Korea is like China was 30-plus years ago. Through our contact, we are certain they will become more open and more liberated.

Lu Guanqiu

Will Become More Open Contact China

It will never do to plead sin as an excuse for sin, or to attempt to justify sinful acts by pleading that we have an evil heart. This instead of being a valid apology, is the very ground of our condemnation.

Archibald Alexander

Heart Evil Sin Apology Will Never

You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape.

Woodrow Wilson

Light Experience Day Sun Landscape

I've got terrible hate mail basically saying I'm vile and evil.

Penny Junor

Hate Evil Saying Mail Got Terrible

My dad is a writer, and to see him always in front of a typewriter gave me the inspiration to write. He was my idol, my hero. I wanted to be just like him.

Shakira

Hero Me Write Inspiration Him See

All these nice people saying I'm going to be world champion won't make me any faster, you have to believe it yourself.

Sebastian Vettel

Yourself People Me World Champion