Mira Nair Quotes

We have to realize only in communication, in real knowledge, in real reaching out, can there be an understanding that there's humanity everywhere, and that's what I'm trying to do.

Mira Nair

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• I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Believe
  • History
  • Accidents

• I never got into politics for it to be a career.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Career
  • Never
  • Politics

• I'm not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I'm a female athlete personality.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Player
  • Personality
  • Model

• I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Beautiful
  • Dream
  • Wish

• I am so saddened and grossed out by young women who look like creepy, old aliens because of their new Barbie noses and lips. Is that a smile or a grimace?

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Women
  • Smile
  • Aliens

• Fighting, I guess, was never the real reason I read comic books as a kid. The fighting was an important part, an integral part of it; I don't know I would've read it without it.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Important
  • Real
  • Know

• As to which is cuter, a puppy or a baby, I'm going to say that probably depends less on the particular puppy and more on the baby. I've seen pictures of me as an infant and consider myself lucky that nobody ever offered my parents the opportunity to trade me for a beagle.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Parents
  • Opportunity
  • Myself

• I worked from 12 to 17, six years in a bakery. I was a pastry cook.

  

  Adam Giles
  • Years
  • Bakery
  • Pastry

• Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?

  

  Pat Robertson
  • History
  • Politics
  • Fool

• David Bowie and Boy George created a safely contained theatrical expression of gay style.

  

  Lance Loud
  • Style
  • Boy
  • Gay

• My mom had an audition for a commercial when I was about two and a half, and I ran in crying and interrupted her. They thought I was cute so they offered me a commercial role. My mom was skeptical and a bit nervous about the child actor thing, but I was extremely bossy and convinced them I wanted to try it.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Mom
  • Child
  • Crying

• Shall we be destined to the days of eternity, on holy-days, as well as working-days, to be showing the relics of learning, as monks do the relics of their saints - without working one - one single miracle with them?

  

  Laurence Sterne
  • Single
  • Learning
  • Miracle

• All my writing is about the recognition that there is no single reality. But the beauty of it is that you nevertheless go on, walking towards utopia, which may not exist, on a bridge which might end before you reach the other side.

  

  Marguerite Young
  • Writing
  • May
  • Reality

• All of my music is honest.

  

  The Weeknd
  • Music

• I like that show 'Ray Donovan' - I'm obsessed with that. He's in Hollywood, he's some kind of a fixer, but he's also kind of a thug. And 'Scandal,' the D.C. one with Kerry Washington.

  

  Kim Gordon Sonic Youth
  • Thug

• Growing up, I've always felt I was from two different worlds. I was born in the U.S., but my parents were born in Vietnam, and they raised my sisters and I with the parenting methods of the Vietnamese culture.

  

  Kelly Marie Tran
  • Up
  • Different
  • Parents

• Take it from me: I really love making things up, which is why I write fiction for a living.

  

  Kristin Gore
  • Up
  • Why

• 'Avatar' is staggering. It's seismic. Evolutionarily speaking, it is cladogenesis in a thunderclap.

  

  Mary H.K. Choi

• Workers in industry are the partners in war of the fighting forces.

  

  Mackenzie King
  • War
  • Fighting
  • Industry

• I think the reason people investigate the paranormal is because we are trying to overcome the mystery of death. That in and of itself is something that lives within every living person, everybody. We all experience death and we are forced to find out if that is just the end, which it is not. So what we do is, when we are experiencing a situation that maybe scary, it's almost now a sense of relief.

  

  Zak Bagans
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Trying

• I went to work one morning, and outside my door was Cindy Crawford in a black bra, and I thought that very clearly the building is making progress in integrating itself into various layers of our culture.

  

  Esa-Pekka Salonen
  • Black
  • Culture
  • Morning

• Objectivity may also be defined as freedom: the objective individual is bound by no commitments which could prejudice his perception, understanding, and evaluation of the given.

  

  Georg Simmel
  • May
  • Freedom
  • Understanding

• We have to realize only in communication, in real knowledge, in real reaching out, can there be an understanding that there's humanity everywhere, and that's what I'm trying to do.

  

  Mira Nair
  • Understanding
  • Humanity
  • Communication