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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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I dont feel despair because I am able to make the films I want to make, and that gives me hope. – Alexander Payne

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Anytime you cast a movie and you need someone famous in the lead part, youre a prisoner of whoever happens to be famous in the six-month window in which youre trying to get a film financed. – Alexander Payne

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famous
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Alexander Payne
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I mean, look, I love movies, not just the ones I make… In fact, I dont like the movies I make very much. – Alexander Payne

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movies
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Their lives have been largely defined by failure and you would think the prospect of marriage, which is supposed to be bountiful and hopeful, its just really another kind of tangential thing in his life. – Thomas Haden Church

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Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man. – William Howard Taft

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If we dont succeed we run the risk of failure. – Dan Quayle

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You get so afraid of failure and so afraid of losing and so afraid of not being the best that its not a natural drive – its born out of fear of failure. Which helps in Hollywood. – Gabrielle Union

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