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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We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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The American nation in the sixth ward is a fine people; they love the eagle - on the back of a dollar.
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Interviews, when they are just simply an exercise in hearing what you want to hear, are of no interest. And many, many, if not most interviews have that character. The interviewer who comes in with a list of bullet points they're going to address one after the other. Interviews, properly considered, should be investigative. You should not know what you're going to hear. You should be surprised.
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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.
