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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I love my job so much, and not everyone can say that and I recognize how lucky that is.
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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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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
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The games I'm playing have much more to do with using the language of power and the vocabulary of power to construct new sentences. It's about pointing to empire and control and domination and misogyny and all those social ills in the work, but it's not necessarily taking a position. Oftentimes, it's actually embodying it.
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The philosophy of love and peace strangely overlooked who was in possession of the guns. There had been love and peace for some time on the continent of Africa because for all this time black men had been captivated by the doctrines of Christianity. It took them centuries to realize its contradictions. ... perhaps there was no greater crime as yet than all the lies Western civilization had told in the name of Jesus Christ.
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The small-market teams should know I've always been with them.
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I complain to one of my fellow servers that I don't understand how she can go so long without food. 'Well, I don't understand how you can go so long without a cigarette,' she responds in a tone of reproach. Because work is what you do for others; smoking is what you do for yourself.
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I grew up in a small town in India, but through books I knew the world.
