Quote by Alexander Payne
I get asked, How can you have such failures in your films? Well, w

I get asked, How can you have such failures in your films? Well, what else is life about? Theres some sense of constant failure in something. Humor gives you a distance from it. – Alexander Payne

Other quotes by Alexander Payne

Joe E. Lewis said, Money doesnt buy happiness but it calms the nerves. And that is how I feel about a film being well-received. – Alexander Payne

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Happiness
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When youre a houseguest and you leave, its nice to straighten something up or send your hosts a useful gift. And when you leave the planet, its nice to have made a positive contribution. – Alexander Payne

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positive
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Other Quotes from
Failure
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I think Ive always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success. – Amy Tan

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Failure

Washington, D.C. is what is broken, not the immigration policies. We have good laws. We have people suffer every day because of governments failure to enforce the law and be respectful to the process we have. We have a pathway to citizenship already in place. – Russell Pearce

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Failure

If youre a doctor or a lawyer or teacher, if you only get three things right out of 10, youre considered a failure. – Jamie Moyer

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Failure

I think Ive failed every test Ive ever taken. If there was a failure I would have been it. – Lisa Marie Presley

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Failure

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Our ideals are our better selves. – Amos Bronson Alcott

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inspirational

We derive our vitality from our store of madness. – E. M. Cioran

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Enthusiasm

Have you seen but a bright lily grow,
Before rude hands have touched it?
Have you marked but the fall o the snow
Before the soil hath smutched it?…
O so white! O so soft! O so sweet is she! – Ben Johnson

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Snow

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. – John Muir

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Nature