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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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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Not only do I not want to be stereotyped as this Asian girl who fights - gee, what a wonder - but also I have more to offer than that.
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A doctor once told me that with crying you aren't sure what its derivation is. If someone comes at you with a knife, you don't cry: you scream, you try to run. When it's over and you're OK, that's when you cry.
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I have a memory of this experience when I was young, watching 'Stop Making Sense,' the Talking Heads concert movie, which is one of the best concert movies ever, and I saw it in a full house in New Zealand, and everyone was cheering between songs, and you really felt like you were part of the audience at the gig.
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I was washing dishes at the Greyhound bus station at the time and I said, 'Awap bop a lup bop a wop bam boom, take 'em out!'
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It's unacceptable to just sit on the couch and say I'm not doing anything. You've got to get out and do everything you can.
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When I work with my art department on putting imagery together for my blog posts I always think, 'Would I pin this?' That really helps.
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Fighting bitterness can be a full-time job.
