Mira Nair Quotes

I look for the humanity in people, however big the politics or oppressive the situation may be, whether it's subsumed within a human being or between two human beings. I want to help us hold a mirror to ourselves.

Mira Nair

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

MirrorPoliticsPeopleHelpLook

I don't think the audience always listens to the critics. That's been proven time and time again.

Mel Gibson

TimeThinkCriticsAlwaysAudience

It's really annoying for me. That's not what I'm playing for, to be the face of the NBA or to be this or that or to take LeBron's throne or whatever.

Stephen Curry

MeFaceWhateverThroneAnnoying

I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine.

Spike Milligan

ReadingThoughtWhyNeverBeginHe

I have always loved tartans - such an ornamented type of weaving, so vivid in colour, and such a masculine aspect. But actually, I think tartans can be feminine or masculine.

Christian Louboutin

ThinkLovedAlwaysColourWeaving

I don't know how I could have an acting career with this.

Connie Sellecca

CareerActingKnowHowCould

An honest politician has no goodies to toss around. This limits his effectiveness profoundly, because political power in India is dispersed throughout a multi-tiered federal structure; a local official who has not been paid off can sometimes stop a billion-dollar project.

Aravind Adiga

PowerLimitsPoliticalIndiaStop

Anything I do informs how I design. I wouldn't isolate any one activity. Everything I do feeds back to my life, and my life is expressed in my work.

Antoine Predock

LifeWorkDesignMy LifeBackHow

I wanted to make a classical piece that was actually designed to be a CD, not designed for performance.

Anne Dudley

PerformanceMakePieceWantedCD

There are a lot of people who can now see me as an artist for the first time.

Alison Moyet

TimePeopleMeArtistNowSee

Why me? Why did this happen? How could I be in Westlife and then have nothing to show for it financially at the end of it? But it's like, why not me? That's just life. It's tough. There's a lot more problems in the world. There are a lot of people who would wish to God they had my problem instead of having a sick child.

Shane Filan

LifeGodChildPeopleMeWorld

I will always stay close to all compatriots, and share together the happiness and suffering.

Norodom Sihamoni

HappinessTogetherSufferingWill

I was formed by 'The Forsyte Saga' marathon. There was something about seeing all those events telescoped that was unbelievably moving: that sense of time as something that can be tinkered with.

Richard Greenberg

TimeMovingSeeingMarathonEvents

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