Mira Nair Quotes
I know what it's like to be in one place and dream of another. I also know what it's like to feel that nostalgia is a fairly useless thing because it is stasis.Mira Nair
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I am convinced that in the arts, committees are useless.
Walter Legge -
I think Baltimore suffers from nostalgia and it keeps us from being honest in talking about what really happened here. A place doesn't have to be perfect to be beloved, and I love this city and I love it better for seeing its flaws.
Laura Lippman -
Nostalgia often leads to idle speculation.
J. Paul Getty -
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
Quintilian -
I felt no passion, no jealousy, no nostalgia. I was hollow, clear-headed, clean, and as emotionless as an aluminum pot.
Umberto Eco -
The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.
Oscar Wilde
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Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don't want time to come back.
Agnes Varda -
Knowing the Truth is Fairly Useless. Feeling it is Profound. Living it Makes All the Difference.
David Deida -
Nostalgia is an illness
Zeena Schreck -
One day we're going to look back at $1,700 with nostalgia. People are going to be shocked at how inexpensive gold was when it could be snapped up for such a bargain price.
Peter Schiff -
Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
William Golding -
We don’t want to become old, rich and useless.
Roger Taylor Queen
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It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
Complaining doesn't make a difference; it's useless and it's wasted energy.
Simon Le Bon Duran Duran -
I think that setting a novel in a small town taps into a sense of nostalgia among readers. People tend to believe life is different in small towns, and frankly, it is different.
Nicholas Sparks -
There are some individuals who have too strong a craving, a will, and a nostalgia for happiness ever to reach it. They always retain a bitter and passionate aftertaste, and that's the best they can hope for.
Albert Camus -
If one does not understand the usefulness of the useless and the uselessness of the useful, one cannot understand art.
Eugene Ionesco -
The Arts are man's most useless ... and essential ... activity.
Eugene Ionesco
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Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
Novalis -
The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas -
I never call myself a singer, ever. I never will. I've always been really embarrassed about my voice. I've never been confident about it. I think it's a little bit better now than when I first started. There are people I admire who are genuinely brilliant singers and I know the difference between what they can do and what I can do.
Gary Numan -
I know what it's like to be in one place and dream of another. I also know what it's like to feel that nostalgia is a fairly useless thing because it is stasis.
Mira Nair