Mira Nair Quotes

I'm inspired by people that are marginal. I'm excited by their resilience.

Mira Nair

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: director
  • Nationality: indian
  • Birth: October 15, 1957

Topics

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I have a weird propensity to know what's going to happen in the future.

John Cameron Mitchell

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Every man's ability may be strengthened or increased by culture.

John Abbott

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I want to be remembered as a poet, a peacemaker, and a philosopher who played.

Mattie Stepanek

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Certainly, our work has identified CTE in many professional football players, but we're also seeing it in a very high percentage of college players.

Ann McKee

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Mentoring is the last refuge of the older artist. With luck, disciples will keep one's books in print, one's reputation alive.

Michael Dirda

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When I talk to the camera, mate, it's not like I'm talking to the camera, I'm talking to you because I want to whip you around and plunk you right there with me.

Steve Irwin

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My first job was cleaning dog kennels. It was especially, ah, aromatic during those hot, humid Louisiana summers, but it prepared me for Hollywood.

Robert Crais

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Dwight Eisenhower, the Republican nominee in 1952, made a strong public commitment to ending the war in Korea, where fighting had reached a stalemate.

Robert Dallek

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Democracy is not a spectator sport.

Mike Quigley

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A lot of people don't think they can count on me, but I've never missed a gig in my life.

Johnny Thunders

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People are trying to live freely outside of, or within a system that maybe for them on a day-to-day level isn't as free... I definitely think we're positively orientated.

Jon Fishman

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Rarely does a congressman stand up and defend a liquor company. Rarely does a congressman stand up and defend a bar.

Jon Taffer

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