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Alexander Payne Quotes

I don't feel despair because I am able to make the films I want to make, and that gives me hope.

Alexander Payne

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Hope I Am Me Feel Want Despair

My daughter did this production of 'Romeo & Juliet' when she was younger, and this agent said she should work, and I said, 'You know what? I'd rather just have her go to school.'

Work Daughter School You Know Said

Most development doesn't make it to series. So you want the writer and director to have a really good experience with development because, if it doesn't work out, you want to work with them again. You have to know their work really well, know the drafts really well, and when you give notes, you need to have really thought them through.

Work Good Experience Thought You

The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society, had that society been well organized.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Character Man Villain Society Energy

I continue to shun, in a very curmudgeonly fashion, things like Twitter and Facebook.

Fashion Things Facebook Continue

Each company is different because they get their DNA from the founders.

DNA Company Because Get Different

Growing up, it was mainly just players I followed more than teams, with the exception of the Mariners. I never really had time to follow a team throughout a season.

Time Team Growing Up Growing Follow

As a little girl growing up in a small farming town in Michigan, my idols were women like Marlene Dietrich and Rita Hayworth.

Women Girl Growing Up Small Growing

In the '70s, you didn't know who was going to survive in a disaster film.

Survive You Know Disaster Going Who

The situation was, the team I was on when I got injured went down to the lower leagues. In America, they don't have that relegation, so when the team went down to the lower region, every player has his value, and they went off and sold any player who had value.

Value Team America Down Situation

A family is very special. So when a family splits up, it's not good, it's never good.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Family Good Special Never Up Very

I do like to write about characters who aren't just starting out, who have had adventures before, who have had a past they aren't that happy looking back on.

Past Happy Looking Back Looking Back

The most bizarre thing I've ever read about myself is that I was dead. That was kind of weird to read that I'm dead - mostly because I was reading it.

Myself Reading Weird Kind Dead Most

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