Mira Nair Quotes
Making films is about having absolute and foolish confidence; the challenge for all of us is to have the heart of a poet and the skin of an elephant.
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To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
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Everybody feels better about himself, his community, and his country if employers are paying workers well. Economics, though, teaches that if every employer is pressured to raise wages, some labor will be priced out of the market.
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The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.
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Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It's for children and families. Not for people like me.
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Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
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I can see my ghost trying to get that Academy Award, forever stuck in a casting office. Can you imagine? I've spent enough time in audition rooms. I don't want to be doing that in my afterlife.
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I love how easy it is to run my business, Writing Workshops Los Angeles, with the help of email and my website. I love that I don't have to use cuneiform, a quill, or a typewriter to write my novels - I love to write on my laptop!
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There are many unidentified bands in the spectra of stars. Wide bands are produced by some complex molecules in the interstellar space.
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It's better to make fun of yourself because you've always got someone around to make fun of, and they can't sue you.
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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
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You can spend your money on art works and sit down and look at them. Or you can use your money to help people.
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Marriage is an exercise in torture.
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What I can tell them is the way you become an Olympic champion is to start working now. I tell them why it's always worth it to put the time and effort into something you want to be good at.
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Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances. For years we lived anyhow with one another in the naked desert, under the indifferent heaven.
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Don't underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the thing you can't hear, and not bothering.
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I think that what computers have done is just disastrous to the language.
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They changed the floor back to old school. They changed the uniform back to old school. Somebody tell the damn players to start playing like old school.
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It's interesting, but in the last five or six years, the audiences are dressing better.
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We put forth proposals. They are still on the table, ... They have yet properly to be considered by the other side.
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ENGLISH DEPARTMENT MEETING AT 3 PM IN SCIENCE LAB 409 ON: THE TOTAL EXPERIENCE OF THE PUPIL: SHOULD MACBETH BE TAUGHT IN THE 6th TERM INSTEAD OF THE 5th?
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A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating.
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I have no connections here; only gusty collisions, rootless seedlings forced into bloom, that collapse. ... I am the Visiting Poet: a real unicorn, a wind-up plush dodo, a wax museum of the Movement. People want to push the buttons and see me glow.
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Making films is about having absolute and foolish confidence; the challenge for all of us is to have the heart of a poet and the skin of an elephant.
