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Quote by Alexander Payne
When youre a houseguest and you leave, its nice to straighten some

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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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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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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Failure
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Alexander Payne
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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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I was raised on the values of speaking up and making a positive difference in a very political family that believed in the importance of public service. – Scott McClellan

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But in fact if you look at film as a metaphor, only through the negative can you have the positive print. What Im trying to get to is the positive value of negation. – Godfrey Reggio

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Sexy in India is not considered positive. But, with todays crop of fresh faces in the modelling arena, being sexy is an asset. – Aishwarya Rai

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Every positive value has its price in negative terms… the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima. – Pablo Picasso

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