Ira Sachs Quotes
As I've gotten less righteous, less pedagogic, I have become more loving of the artificiality, the art form, the imitation of life in film.
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I was a big fan of Indiana Jones; then I realized he was kind of a fake hero. The real heroes are the people who work hard and do their stuff right, like firefighters and policemen.
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I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
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There's definitely a whole different vibe on the set when there's like basically royalty working with us. We could have whatever we wanted. I felt like Britney Spears.
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
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I'm really looking forward to working with Meghan Trainor because that's in the pipeline, and I'm eager for it to really happen.
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The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.
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A system of education is not one thing, nor does it have a single definite object, nor is it a mere matter of schools. Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
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I enjoyed making this album a lot because of the knowledge we acquired over the last 3 years.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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Would-be adoptive parents have to struggle for years through a bureaucratic obstacle course at an average cost of $30,000.
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I think what probably happens when you put two awkward/clunky people together is that their awkward/clunky world seems like a normal world.
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Capitalist systems function less well without state protection of investors, lenders, and companies against monopoly, deception, and fraud.
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My mother taught me to drive using the 'Detroit Method,' where speed limits and traffic lights are taken as cute suggestions.
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In reality, those rare few cases with good forensic evidence are the ones that make it to court.
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We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings.'
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It's not easy to play 162 games and be focused the whole time. It takes a lot out of you.
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We can't do a modern Batman continually beating up thugs in zoot suits with tommy guns in violin cases. The game has to move on. It has to feel relevant.
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The fundamental grey which differentiates the masters, expresses them and is the soul of all colour.
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I have been called brave in my time, but brave as I may have been against foreign invaders, I have no heart to shed Filipino blood.
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Throughout history no one has suffered more than God. He has suffered because his own children fell away from him. Ever since the Fall, God has been working tirelessly for the restoration of mankind. People do not know this brokenhearted aspect of God.
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I laughed and said, Life is easy. What I meant was, Life is easy with you here, and when you leave, it will be hard again.
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As I've gotten less righteous, less pedagogic, I have become more loving of the artificiality, the art form, the imitation of life in film.
