Quote by Alexander Payne
Joe E. Lewis said, Money doesnt buy happiness but it calms the ner

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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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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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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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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Happiness
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I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor. – Pierre Corneille

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Happiness

My biography of Frank Sinatra is not paean to his music but rather an illumination of the man behind the music, who once described himself as an 18-karat manic-depressive who lived a life of violent emotional contradictions with an over-acute capacity for sadness as well as happiness. – Kitty Kelley

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Love is when the other persons happiness is more important than your own. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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Happiness

Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it. – Gustave Flaubert

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Happiness

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If a fellow isnt thankful for what hes got, he isnt likely to be thankful for what hes going to get. – Frank A. Clark

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How do you tell an optimist that he or she has lived a happy life by mistake? – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Optimism

Hee that is in a towne in May loseth his spring. – George Herbert

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For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged. – Alice Walker

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