"When you're a houseguest and you leave, it's nice to straighten something up or send your hosts a useful gift. And when you leave the planet, it's nice to have made a positive contribution."

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Source : "Alexander Payne: 'Don't remove the lint'". Interview with Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2012.

Alexander Payne

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“It is easy to slip into a parallel universe. There are so many of them: worlds of the insane, the criminal, the crippled, the dying, perhaps of the dead as well. These worlds exist alongside this world and resemble it, but are not in it.”

Source : "Girl, Interrupted". Book by Susanna Kaysen, 1993.
“For me, fashion begins in New York.”
“I didn't sleep with the European Cup but it was in my room! It was just special and I just had to have the cup with me, lifting the cup as Liverpool captain was just the best moment of my life.”
“The man who wishes to bend me with his tale of woe must shed true tears - not tears that have been got ready overnight.”
“I still come closest to success with drawing. When I use color the results are dubious, for these painfully gained experiences bear less fruit.”
“In every company, differentiation is never more important than it is in times of trouble, and that's the time when everyone tends to go to the well and equalize rather than differentiate.”
“If you donâ€™t want your followers to give up in disgust, your inspiration needs to be in the service of goals that are at least attainable.”
“For me, a desert island is no tragedy, neither is a deserted planet.”

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