Mira Nair Quotes

Middle-class Pakistani cultural life is what I've seen, what I know - they're not all screaming faceless mullahs. It's disturbing that in American films, the character on the other side is not even named.

Mira Nair

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I'm a magazine junkie. I have 30 different subscriptions to various magazines, and I like old-school, real magazines.

Jennifer Hyman

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I had never heard of 'young adult novels,' which I guess are about teenage gangs and the new boy in town or something.

Andrew Sean Greer

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That's usually what I indulge in if I play some games - pinball.

Matt Hardy

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One of the strangest unintended consequences of abortion, of legalized abortion, was that it drives the crime rate down because what abortion really was, was a mechanism for which fewer unwanted children could be born.

Stephen J. Dubner

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In marketing you must choose between boredom, shouting and seduction. Which do you want?

Roy H. Williams

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I was rather disappointed, because the one thing I wanted to gain from that opportunity was to add something to his music, and have him add something to mine.

Michael Nyman

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I believe I can sing anything.

Miriam Makeba

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Every day is an opportunity to fall or hurt yourself.

Dianna Agron

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The perfect pop song is a 20th-century creation; it's not a sonnet, it's not an opera, it's something short - three and a half minutes by nature - and has this ability to travel and to defy class and economic structures.

Doug Aitken

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'Mudbound,' you know, is about home. 'Mudbound' is about what it means to be a citizen, and 'Mudbound,' in fact, is set in this post-reconstruction era that we haven't really explored. You know, not since 'Sounder' have we even really explored that experience.

Dee Rees

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Donald Trump is the best debater on the debate stage.

Corey Lewandowski

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Once your kid reaches middle school, parents are really supposed to fade out of the social picture. Kids are supposed to make their own plans, keep up with sophisticatedly crude discussions, and be able to go out on their own without supervision.

Claire Scovell LaZebnik

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