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Hollywood films have become a cesspool of formula and it's up to us to try to change it... I feel like a preacher! But it's really true. I feel personally responsible for the future of American cinema. Me personally. ↗

— Alexander Payne

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I think that Peter Jennings is the only decent one of the big three. ↗

— Alexander Payne

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My biographer said that my parties reminded them of a vicarage tea party, with sex thrown in. ↗

— Cynthia Payne

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By 1980, when I came out of prison, The Sun did a campaign to stop putting vice girls in prison. We've talked about it ever since and nothing has been done about it. ↗

— Cynthia Payne

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I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away. ↗

— Thomas Love Peacock

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I always seemed to fall in love with policemen. ↗

— Cynthia Payne

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Deserve your dream. ↗

— Octavio Paz

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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism. ↗

— Octavio Paz

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Education: A debt due from present to future generations. ↗

— George Peabody

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For many decades now - and certainly during my adult life in academe - the Western intellectual world has not been convinced that theology is a pursuit that can be engaged in with intellectual honesty and integrity. ↗

— Arthur Peacocke

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