Ira Sachs Quotes
I like a film that makes the audience feel like they are in the middle of life as it is moving, and in a way, they are catching up. They are thrown into things.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
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It didn't scare me to be vulnerable because I think that's when you get something great.
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I always tell audiences when I talk about writing: Writing isn't something I do; writing is something that I am. I am writing - it's just an expression of me.
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When their city was occupied by the Gauls, and the Romans, who were besieged in the Capitol, had made military engines from the hair of the women, they dedicated a temple to the Bald Venus.
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But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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Basketball is in my blood. It is my obligation to try.
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In the hands of a passive-aggressive person who wants to abdicate responsibility for things, texting is a great tool. You can really go nuts.
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Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.
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I didn't particularly like being objectified.
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Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.
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'Mahershala' is my nickname.
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Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress.
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If people don't have a job, they're not too interested in how you intend for them to have a job. They want to see results.
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I love a microphone and a big crowd; I'm an entertainer, I guess.
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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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As the prerogative of Natural Science is to cultivate a taste for observation, so that of Mathematics is, almost from the starting point, to stimulate the faculty of invention.
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More things in politics happen by accident or exhaustion than happen by conspiracy.
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In terms of animation, animators are actors as well. They are fantastic actors. They have to draw from how they feel emotionally about the beat of a scene that they're working on. They work collaboratively.
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I look around at all the girl singers, and I think they're all my children... and they're all going to do this... And, yes, maybe I inspired them because I did get through a lot, and I did have the same problems that they're going to have. You do have to give up a lot for it.
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For me, the most enjoyable type of singing is opera. It allows you to move, to wear a costume... to do something with your body. When singing in concert, you have to stand up in front of the audience, next to the conductor, which is less natural.
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I like a film that makes the audience feel like they are in the middle of life as it is moving, and in a way, they are catching up. They are thrown into things.
