Ishtar (1987)

Isabelle Adjani: Shirra Assel

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Quotes 

• Marty Freed : [Shirra is crying at the concert]  What's wrong?

  Shirra Assel : I think they're wonderful.

• Shirra Assel : This is an ancient devious world, and you come from a young country. Promise me you will keep my secret without trying to understand it.

• Shirra Assel : The birds in the desert eat only flesh, and there is no wind.

• Shirra Assel : Listen to me. Your roommate is a ClA agent. The room may be wired. He gave me his passport in lshtar.

  Lyle Rogers : [trying to pickup Shirra from the ground who is disguised as a boy]  Are these breasts?

• Shirra Assel : The Dome of the Emir's Palace is made of gold. The people have never seen a refridgerator.

• Shirra Assel : Does the hawk fly?

• Shirra Assel : I have written about our deaths, we will be remembered.

• Shirra Assel : I knew he had hidden it where they would never find it. He was smiling at me!

  [Cries] 

  Shirra Assel : It was our last secret.

• Shirra Assel : [they've put a bounty on the singers]  You are a murderer!

  Resistence Fighter : So are you. Or do you think a bullet is crueler than what they face now?