Ira Sachs Quotes
I realize I have strength as an artist and professional by embracing my difference instead of what makes me the same.
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I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.
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'Grey's Anatomy' is a very culturally diverse show.
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It's hard for me to talk about Dom right now because I am Dom right now. So it's a really strange exercise to try to reflect on something that I am at the moment. But I guarantee you that when I'm done with the movie and you ask me that question, I'll be able to give you something insightful.
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I would love to do some theater.
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I don't believe that intelligence can be reduced to a number, frankly. But I can see how doing exactly that produces a useful sorting mechanism in our society in order to separate children into categories of promising and doomed. The tests seem arbitrary and without real scientific value and yet have lasting consequences.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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I have seen in my life, I have struggled so much. I did not get support from anyone.
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It was hard for my father to read; it took him a long time, but he had tremendous retention and tremendous appreciation for writing.
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I never thought I'd live this long. It sounds funny because I still think of myself as a kid.
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Papa died when he was 77.
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Women should learn from men to compartmentalize. It's a great skill that some women have naturally but others have to practice. The goal is to keep one area of your life that might not be going well from causing unnecessary disruptions in another area.
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I had Hallowe'en parties every year, as it was my birthday five days before. My parents would actually put prosthetic noses on, and my dad would wear a top-hat and tails, put on a fake curly moustache, and hold a pipe.
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If you know you are giving your best effort, you'll never have any reason for regrets.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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You don't want people thinking you're a cheat just because you're really fast and have broken the world record by a second.
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I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard enough to get it.
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Like the marriage contract you entered into, your divorce is a legal transaction. Treat it that way. Try not to let emotion, hurt, fear or anger dictate the circumstances of your discussions or negotiations.
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Afghanistan is a land-locked country.
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I feel like people start to believe things that people say about them and start to think they're really important. If you have a family that is down to earth and cool, I don't see how you can be like that.
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I'm a 24-hour tweet machine, I'm a 24-hour blogger. When there's no pressure on me, I can talk and write and lecture with the best of them. But put a deadline on me and I start getting writer's block.
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Many comedians have a dark side that lets them take a negative thing and turn it funny.
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I think that T.V. shows are more like working at a home. You know you're going to the same place every day, working with the same people, the same cast and crew. You're in a dressing room instead of a trailer, so I think that that's more of a normal sort of lifestyle.
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We are shallow because our media are so horribly shallow. Every morning, I peruse the papers, and there is so little to read in them. It is the same with radio - all that noise, that artifice.
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I realize I have strength as an artist and professional by embracing my difference instead of what makes me the same.
