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.Mira Nair
Quotes to Explore
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To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
Mahatma Gandhi -
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.
Edmund Phelps -
The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.
Otto Schily -
Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It's for children and families. Not for people like me.
Karl Lagerfeld -
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.
Abraham Lincoln -
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.
Rachael Taylor
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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!
Edan Lepucki -
There are many unidentified bands in the spectra of stars. Wide bands are produced by some complex molecules in the interstellar space.
Garik Israelian -
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.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
Samuel Butler -
You can spend your money on art works and sit down and look at them. Or you can use your money to help people.
Xavier Niel -
Marriage is an exercise in torture.
Frances Conroy
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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.
Rafer Johnson -
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.
T. E. Lawrence -
Don't underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the thing you can't hear, and not bothering.
A. A. Milne -
I think that what computers have done is just disastrous to the language.
Gary Paulsen -
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.
Karl Malone -
It's interesting, but in the last five or six years, the audiences are dressing better.
Wayne Newton
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Generally I don't care about what people say. I have to be clear with myself. When everything goes well, people celebrate you, when you make mistakes people criticize you.
Sebastian Vettel -
Hollywood and the recording industry argue that current law permits the copying of songs and movies, and sharing them on the Internet. This enables young people to grow up learning how to steal.
Suzanne Fields -
The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.
Virginia Woolf -
One challenge to the arts in America is the need to make the arts, especially the classic masterpieces, accessible and relevant to today's audience.
William Lewis Safir -
The threads of circumstance that lead to tomorrow are so tenuous that all the fussing and worrying about decisions is futile compared to the pure randomness of existence.
Nick Bantock -
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.
Mira Nair