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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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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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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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.
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If one does not understand the usefulness of the useless and the uselessness of the useful, one cannot understand art.
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The Arts are man's most useless ... and essential ... activity.
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Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel?
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Bouillabaisse is only good because cooked by the French, who, if they cared to try, could produce an excellent and nutritious substitute out of cigar stumps and empty matchboxes.
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People are valuable regardless of the color of their skin. You can be open about it and talk about it. You don't have to pretend that you are not different, but you can learn about those differences God didn't say, 'Ooh, I made you brown on accident.' He made them that color on purpose. And if you do not have friendships with other races, then ask God to bring you some. He will.
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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.
