Alexander Payne Quotes

I guess maybe I try to make movies that are closer to real life than are many Hollywood movies. But I still try to stay within a commercial narrative, a contemporary American vernacular.

Alexander Payne

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Pixar is going in the direction of the early Disney. And it's also corporate, where they have four or five projects in the works. I don't want to get into that subject.

Joe Grant

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I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print.

John Mortimer

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I was a tomboy. I had a pudding-bowl haircut; I wore big Doc Martens and dungarees.

Maxine Peake

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I have as many pictures of my vocal cords as I do of my children. I have a great ear, nose and throat doctor, and we look at them - if there's some redness, maybe I'll take a little time off.

Anita Baker

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I have plowed and planted and gathered into barns, and no man could head me. And aren't I a woman?

Sojourner Truth

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I could not understand why Meryl Streep, for example, is allowed to work while pregnant and I'm not.

Robin Wright

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I was desperate for new material, so anything I can write a joke about that works is in the act. No matter who it offends, or who it bothers - doesn't matter if its something my wife hates.

Ron White

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After 1994, the public had the impression we Republicans overpromised and underdelivered.

Mitch McConnell

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How do I explain Neil Young? Great question! I explain Neil Young as, I would kill to see his acoustic shows.

Bob Mould

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I'm a baby face in real life - in person.

Bobby Lashley

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I don't know where I'm going to be in three years. Because I have the feeling that the future is so full of possibilities, to stop being an actress, to do something else... for me, the future is just a huge bunch of discoveries.

Audrey Tautou

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It's not that acting was something I'd always wanted to do. I had no formal training; I'd never really imagined I'd be an actress. Business was something that had always been in my mind, but when I got into acting, I learned everything on set, and for me at that point, I wanted to excel at what I did.

Preity Zinta

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