Mira Nair Quotes
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It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.
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The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.
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China needs a powerful Europe, but Europe can only be strong if each and every one of its members attains rapid economic development.
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A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
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I was interested in aerospace and flying, and the U.S. is really the best place in the world for flying.
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He, however, who begins with Metaphysics, will not only become confused in matters of religion, but will fall into complete infidelity.
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It is better to predict dramatic things that don't happen than boring things that do.
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Writing a novel is like knocking on a door that will never open. You are so desperate to get in, you will say or do anything. You feel: please take my novel.
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When it comes to investing, you are your own worst enemy.
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I cherish the ballets made for myself by Mr. Balanchine. He never lost his temper. He was quiet, humble, the genius of the 20th century.
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I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall be with me and aid me, I must fail; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me, I shall not fail - I shall succeed.
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I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I used with a small Gibson amplifier.
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Writing is like travelling. It's wonderful to go somewhere, but you get tired of staying.
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I want to move people the way Edith Piaf did.
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I had been coming to New York, pretty much once a month, to dance on Broadway. I was offered a huge Broadway show but couldn't do it because my brother was having his huge Bar Mitzvah.
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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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My father got a phone call to bring me in to meet with Spielberg for 'E.T.,' partially because they knew I was a physical kid, and I was known in the business somewhat as a stunt kid, and I could do all the bicycle riding.
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Well, I think that you're looking at it from a theological perspective or a scientific perspective. Answering that question with specificity is above my pay grade. But let me just speak more generally about the issue of abortion, because this is something that obviously the country wrestles with.
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All fundamentalist movements… whether they're Jewish, Christian or Muslim or Buddhist, all begin as an intra-religious debate, an intra-religious struggle. Then, at a later stage, fundamentalists sometimes reach out towards a foreign foe and hence the Muslim feeling that American foreign policy … is holding them back.
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'It's a gift!' he said. He was referring to his art, and also to the result; but he was using the word quite literally.
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I'm not the type of person to eat big hunks of meat. I think people are starting to realize that great things come in small batches.
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The justice delivery system needs structural change. It needs fresh vision and innovative solutions.
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Wretched are those who are vindictive and spiteful.
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I grew up in a small town in India, but through books I knew the world.
