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 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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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.
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You know what nostalgia is, don't you? It's basically a matter of recalling the fun without reliving the pain.
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Romanticism implies nostalgia for damaged goods.
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For one thing, there is absolutely nothing wrong with being nice. There is nothing uncool about it; there's nothing wrong with being kind.
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Without love of something I don't know if you can have a meaningful life at all.
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Winter's notion of poetry is tragedy. It knows nothing of comedy. Its laughter was frozen on its lips long ago.
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In history, one gathers clues like a detective, tries to present an honest account of what most likely happened, and writes a narrative according to what we know and, where we aren't absolutely sure, what might be most likely to have happened, within the generally accepted rules of evidence and sources.
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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.
