Ira Sachs Quotes
Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.
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I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wrists.
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Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.
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I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, there would be no writing.
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I don't understand why people make me want to make music that's a join-the-dots thing by numbers. I find it really difficult when people say, 'Aw, you should have made a really big hip hop record, that would have been really good for you' or, 'You should have made a song like Lily Allen, that would have been so great.'
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I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.
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If they can go out and buy my albums, I can at least make the sacrifice to holler at the few people who call. A lot of times I'm busy so they'll get my voice mail. And if I can speak to them and I have time, I always text back. Because I think that's very important.
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I don't think I've ever met any single person who has been vulgar. But you know, you learn along the way that some people are going to be very generous, and other people... It's just not innate within them. Sometimes I think you just have to decide if you're going to stand up and get on with it or if you're going to be crushed and threatened.
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This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.
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I was raised a Christian. I'd like to think I have Christian values. I don't attend church.
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If Republicans want to be seen as more compassionate, they should continue to stand proudly for the sanctify of life and marriage. And they should do so without apologizing.
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Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean.
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It's great living with your best friends.
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I think fan fiction is the way most writers start, and the same goes for music and design.
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I've always wanted to be an actress as well as a fashion designer.
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If pains be to be taken to give him a manly air and assurance betimes, it is chiefly as a fence to his virtue when he goes into the world under his own conduct.
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Before 'This is Our Youth', I did a week of table reading 'Airline Highway' at Steppenwolf in Chicago while the author, Lisa D'Amour, workshopped it.
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Good is the enemy of great. That good is the enemy of great is not just a business problem. It is a human problem
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Consciousness is our only reprieve from Time.
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Every decade or so, the world is tested by a crisis so grave that it breaks the mould: one so horrific and inhumane that the response of politicians to it becomes emblematic of their generation -their moral leadership or cowardice, their resolution or incompetence. It is how history judges us.
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Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.
