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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

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Marketing has supplanted story as the primary force behind the worthiness of making a film, and thats a very sad thing. Its film only as a function of consumerism rather than as an important component of our culture, and thats everywhere around the world. – Alexander Payne

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sad
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Alexander Payne
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The novel succeeds on terms exclusive to literature. A good film succeeds on terms exclusive to the cinema. Thats why so many bad novels can become good movies, like Jaws or The Godfather. – Alexander Payne

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movies
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Alexander Payne
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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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Alexander Payne
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Failure
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The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure. – Laurence J. Peter

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Failure

My downfall raises me to infinite heights. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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Failure

Ive become a professional failure – in order to pay the mortgage I have to remain unemployed. Luckily, a disaster always seems to befall me at exactly the right moment. – Toby Young

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Failure

The fact that The Bridge contains folk lore and other material suitable to the epic form need not therefore prove its failure as a long lyric poem, with interrelated sections. – Hart Crane

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Failure

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People still dont appreciate how ephemeral success is. – Nate Silver

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She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket. – Raymond Chandler

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Smiles

Our hope, and its a sad hope, is that… well, I mean we need a tip. Thats why we have such a big reward. We just hope that someone is holding her for her child and that we can, you know, get her back with a tip. – Scott Peterson

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sad

Dont be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed. – Lily Tomlin

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