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.
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I am convinced that in the arts, committees are useless.
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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.
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Nostalgia often leads to idle speculation.
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Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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I felt no passion, no jealousy, no nostalgia. I was hollow, clear-headed, clean, and as emotionless as an aluminum pot.
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If there is any kind of legitimate ostalgia, it's for everything we've never even seen, the women we've never slept with, never dreamed of, the friends we haven't made, the books we've never read, all the food steaming in the pots we've never eaten out of. That's the only real kind of nostalgia there is.
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The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.
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Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don't want time to come back.
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Knowing the Truth is Fairly Useless. Feeling it is Profound. Living it Makes All the Difference.
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Nostalgia is the aching realization that you can't go back again. The longing, no matter how intense, can never be met.
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Nostalgia is an illness
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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.
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No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
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Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
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We don’t want to become old, rich and useless.
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It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing.
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Complaining doesn't make a difference; it's useless and it's wasted energy.
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Without the Gospel everything is useless and vain.
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When I'm cynical, I seek out bands that are fully participating and trying to push something forward. Or I can just start playing music again - which is happening with a new project. But I think it's always a challenge to overcome cynicism and not get bogged down by a sense of nostalgia. That can be such a stifling feeling.
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I grew up in a rural area called Vega Baja and I'm the first of so many talented people in this area to make it out. I take great pride to represent where I come from and I am able to show my fans, and everyone who listens and watches me, that anything is possible.
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I don't like it, to be honest, when politicians make a big thing of their religious beliefs, so I don't make a big thing of it.
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Muslims should live like brothers.
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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.
