Mira Nair Quotes
What is really important to me is a sense of humour and a mischief about life. Life is just too boring otherwise.
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If you can achieve winning a league championship, that, to me, is the full test of the team and management because it is over the full season and you have a lot of problems you have to overcome.
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Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: 'My daughter loves you, will you sign an autograph for her?' And some people send me stuff. I don't mind it at all: as a sportswoman, you owe them because they support you.
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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When I was a kid, I was super shy.
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Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn't seated in the confines of your home.
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Death is not something any one of us want to dwell on, but we must all confront it at some point.
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It is so funny because I was always embarrassed because I never had formal training in acting.
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You don't get second chances in the real world.
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I have been connected with the Niels Bohr Institute since the completion of my university studies, first as a research fellow and, from 1956, as a professor of physics at the University of Copenhagen. After the death of my father in 1962, I followed him as director of the Institute until 1970.
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In America, we may acknowledge Washington and Lincoln as great men, and probably Franklin and Jefferson and maybe Franklin Delano Roosevelt and possibly even several more, but we would probably disagree about precisely what it was that made them great, what it was that enabled them to give a lasting direction to the course of events.
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I left my mark on 'Dark Shadows.' One day I was doing my lines perfectly from Act 3. Everyone else was doing Act 2.
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This means a lot. I'm being recognized for all the blood, sweat and tears I put into a 17-year career.
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If you choose to be Frankenstein with Botox and plastic surgery, you've bought your own private mask.
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True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely.
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Vince Vaughn is a genuine person, awesome guy. He'll come to a lot of my shows. It's not that often that you can meet someone as cool as Vince.
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If it's boring, then it's tiring.
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The only thing I've settled in my mind is that I want to forgive, and forgiveness comes with forgetting.
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We buy the tabloids to witness someone else's life go wrong, so we can feel a bit better about our own troubles.
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If I don't believe I'm the guy that's going to help defeat Cuomo, then I won't go forward.
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What I have noticed is that no two places in Calcutta are alike. I like the bylanes and the old places. This city has a lot of character.
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Although an important amount of repairs and conservation works have been carried out right from the British period in India these have not compromised to the original qualities of the buildings.
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Acting is a very important thing for me, and I love doing it. But when I'm acting, I spend 14 hours a day and months a time being someone else. When I'm singing, I just get to be me.
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No one could have ever prepared me for the whole world judging me and comparing to other artists. But what's most important is that you have to be a good person and care about others and carry yourself well.
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What is really important to me is a sense of humour and a mischief about life. Life is just too boring otherwise.
