Ira Sachs Quotes
I don't think I'd ever start making a film until I had both the intimacy with the subject and the distance to make it live in a certain way.
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When you're doing a car chase movie, you're sitting in car waiting for places or grips or stuff for quite a while.
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The U.S. economy and workers benefit from a strong, healthy relationship between government and business.
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I don't like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale.
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If you can shrug off a loss, you can't be a winner.
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I am increasingly unimpressed by works of art that require a college degree to understand. I think that art should be for everyone. And people should be moved by it.
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The power of a sports team in a community it's almost indescribable.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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Great leaders have a heart for people. They take time for people. They view people as the bottom line, not as a tool to get to the bottom line.
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I remember reading a 'Scientific American' article about the use of new physical techniques - including neutron scattering - as a method for unravelling the structure of the ribosome. I was fascinated.
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Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.
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Women are not all single-issue voters.
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I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word.
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Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together.
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Anyone who's got a guitar, you like to pick it up. I can play a couple of songs, some '50s rock and roll, a bit of Elvis. That's it, really - I'm not a musician, I'm not a singer.
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Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.
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Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day.
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The big things I've had are things I bought myself.
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I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how it looks both ways. And I know there is wisdom and that there is hope.
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If I could gain 1,000 pounds and be healthy, I would love to do that.
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There is no possible source of evil except good.
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Religion is no more the parent of morality than an incubator is the mother of a chicken.
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Children are coming to school with trauma, everyday trauma, that they live under: violence in the homes, alcoholism in the community, unemployment that's 80 percent, not just during the recession. We need to help treat that before they can even go sit in a class and learn about math.
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I was a home-schooled kid, living in the forest, and I didn't even have cable. I'm serious.
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I don't think I'd ever start making a film until I had both the intimacy with the subject and the distance to make it live in a certain way.
