Ira Sachs Quotes
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I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care about is respect for the individual.
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It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
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I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
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I just felt that you can't have a character fall in love so madly as they did in the last movie and not finish it off, understand it, get some closure. That's why the movie is called 'Quantum of Solace' - that's exactly what he's looking for.
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We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.
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Death is a zero sum game for which there is no cure.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.
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That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the direction of the good stuff, and to keep the awful stuff away from their door.
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Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.
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People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it.
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In the present imperialistic milieu there can be no wars of national self-defense.
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There's always been something a little pathetic for me at the work parties I've attended, especially thinking back to the restaurants I worked in. I remember a Christmas party in which we all got free T-shirts with the restaurant on the front and our names on the back.
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Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.
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If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.
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As a young girl I think I wanted to be a horse woman. I loved horses.
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'Habibi' is a complex and unapologetic work of fantasy - no idle undertaking for readers of any faith or no faith at all, but one well worth the trouble.
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I travel a lot. I'll go back and forth, you know, West Coast-East Coast, but it's separated by segments. So it's not a daily thing.
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Certainly, by providing individuals coming out of institutions with ways to become productive citizens, we reduce recidivism. What that means is we reduce crime. There are fewer victims when individuals have options - when they have job skills, when they have life skills, we break the cycle of children following their parents into institutions.
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I worked in the book publishing business for nearly two decades before I turned my attention to writing, first with a couple ghostwriting projects, plus a crappy novel that absolutely no one wanted to publish. Then I moved to Luxembourg for my wife's job and found the inspiration for 'The Expats.'
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Every story about me is so heavy and dramatic. That's not how I do life. But that's the impression people have, and that's what keeps getting reiterated. As if I'm still stuck in all the muck of the past. And I am so not.
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Fighting bitterness can be a full-time job.
