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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I certainly was one of the instigators in the 1960s of freedom of expression.
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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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I'm an obsessive hiker and I do it every day for two hours and it really helps me when it comes to learning songs or scripts.
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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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Nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die or to be maimed for life without the faintest idea of what's going on.
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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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We settled Mama into the wheelchair and loaded her down with both our pocketbooks and a vase of flowers I had picked to present to our host in hopes of softening the effects of any opinions Mama might vent during the evening.
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With the theatre, your whole day is geared towards the evening's show, and that's the job. People usually go to work about 9 and come home around 5, or maybe 7.
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Basically, the actor's job is to pay attention to the script.
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It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue - but I would argue it nevertheless - that the peculiar combination of joy and sadness in bell music - both of clock chimes, and of change-ringing - is very typical of England. It is of a piece with the irony in which English people habitually address one another.
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At one level, SXSW exemplifies serendipity, because whenever I come, I get these unexpected meetings with people I never knew existed, and you couldn't have planned it. But by making the choice to come to SXSW, I'm increasing the probability of those encounters.
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Fighting bitterness can be a full-time job.
