Ira Sachs Quotes
I could not - and I still cannot - see a sustainable career as a filmmaker in which I focus fully on our gay stories.
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I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.
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I thought that I'd have a briefcase-and-power-suit career.
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I knew I wanted to pursue a career in the theater the minute I graduated from college having not pursued it! So I went back to school and got a degree in music and began working in musical theater.
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I started acting almost on a whim to help my music career.
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On the court, Jason Collins is not a huge basketball star, but he has already claimed his place in civil rights history as the first openly gay athlete to play in one of the four major U.S. sports leagues.
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The last time I had to make a career decision, I was 17. I could have gone to Ballet Theatre or National Ballet of Canada. There were options. But as I became exposed to the Robbins repertoire, I realized that there was a living genius in the house.
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Maintaining a sense of humor is key to getting people to also focus on the crises at hand.
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How I see my career is very much as an entrepreneur in the field of philanthropy.
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I gave up school. I gave up a really, really good job. I gave up a lot of stuff. I cut a lot of people out of my life so I could just focus on my fighting dreams.
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Gay men in L.A. are all a bunch of tens looking for an eleven.
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There have been periods of my career that I haven't worked for a really long time, like seven or eight months.
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After doing a juice cleanse, I'm motivated to eat healthier and not emotionally. Cleansing is like my meditation. It makes me stop, focus and think about what I'm putting into my body. I'm making a commitment to my health and hitting the reset button.
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In Paris, I met a young American person who immediately became the primary inspiration which awakened my vision and the leading influence that had directed my forces. Throughout my career as an artist, I refer to this person by the word 'Woman.'
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Focus on being balanced - success is balance.
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I think that there's no doubt that as I see friends, families, children of gay couples who are thriving, you know, that has an impact on how I think about these issues.
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Everything I've been through, everything I'm about to go through in my career and my life, if my family wasn't with me and didn't support me, it would be really tough.
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I've been in the public eye so long, I can't remember how it was when it was different - from my mid-20s onwards, when my career started to blossom and I became an international, world cups and things.
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I wasn't one of those kids who grew up wanting to write or who read a particular book and thought: 'I want to do that!' I always told stories and wrote them down, but I never thought writing was a career path, even though, clearly, someone was writing the books and newspapers and magazines.
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Focus comes a lot more easily when you desperately want the results of your own work - nobody else is going to do it for you.
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The game of political music chairs and finger-pointing by career politicians and agency bureaucrats needs to end.
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I think women should be seductive, not triste. There's enough sadness in life now without making women look sad, too.
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We owe our success to them, and also to the fact that, as the saying goes, two 'Eds' are better than one.
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I never had faith that the answers to human problems lay in anything that could be called political. I thought the answers, if there were answers, lay someplace in man's soul.
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I could not - and I still cannot - see a sustainable career as a filmmaker in which I focus fully on our gay stories.