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Ira Sachs Quotes

Intimacy is something to be cherished, and intimacy is not something to be afraid of.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: american
Birth: November 21, 1965

Topics

Intimacy Afraid Something Cherished

My advice for telling someone else's story is to try not to consciously bend the story in any particular direction - to listen with an open mind, to include the good with the bad, to attempt to quell one's biases and allow the person you're writing about to emerge as wholly as possible, warts and all.

Good Mind Writing Story Direction

The present assault upon capital is but the beginning. It will be but a stepping-stone to others, larger and more sweeping, till our political contests will become a war of the poor against the rich.

Stephen J. Field

Beginning War Rich Present Political

Man's striving for order, of which art is but one manifestation, derives from a similar universal tendency throughout the organic world; it is also paralleled by, and perhaps derived from, the striving towards the state of simplest structure in physical systems.

Art Man World Striving Structure

When the doctor said I had diabetes, I conjured images of languishing on a chaise longue nibbling chocolates. I have no idea why I thought this.

Mary Tyler Moore

Doctor Thought Diabetes Said Why

We learned about honesty and integrity - that the truth matters... that you don't take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules... and success doesn't count unless you earn it fair and square.

Learning Success Integrity Truth You

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.

Impossible Wrong Go Repair Out Get

I receive about 10,000 letters a year from readers, and in the first year after a book is published, perhaps 5,000 letters will deal specifically with that piece of work.

Work Book Year Letters Will First

A building or a town will only be alive to the extent that it is governed in a timeless way. It is a process which brings order out of nothing but ourselves; it cannot be attained, but it will happen of its own accord, if we will only let it.

Christopher Alexander

Building Process Alive Nothing Way

We need children to play the parts in movies. I'm just glad it's not my kids.

Children Play Movies Need Just Kids

In general, just as a framing, we always thought about 'Winter Soldier' very specifically as a political thriller.

Winter Thought Political Always Just

No young doctor nowadays can hope for work as exciting and rewarding.

Work Hope Doctor Young Exciting

Around 1980, I went back to painting with a vengeance.

Painting Back Vengeance Around

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