Mira Nair Quotes

I started to make my own films, however small and however independent they were, from the beginning. And so, even though I was nobody, I was always the master of my own work.

Mira Nair

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WorkBeginningSmallNobodyMy Own

Any alternative culture that inspires a lot of passion and inspiration is also in danger of being set in its ways, almost from the moment it's born.

Jello Biafra

PassionMomentCultureBornDanger

We are playing at home, with full stadiums and passionate fans. It will be very special moment for me.

Andriy Shevchenko

HomeMomentMeWillPassionateFans

Created by writer Beau Willimon, who's worked on several political campaigns, 'House of Cards' cannily exploits the current widespread cynicism for our politics, catering to a public scorn that's warranted and also glib in the sort of cheap pox-on-both-houses way that means not having to pay attention.

Steve Erickson

PoliticsPoliticalAttentionHouse

Most of the time, criticism that takes pop culture seriously involves performing some kind of symbolic analysis, decoding the work to demonstrate the way it represents some other aspect of society.

Steven Johnson

WorkTimeCultureSocietyCriticism

Why, on my mother's birthday, am I thinking about 'Father Knows Best?' At our house, mother knew best at least as often as father did, but then the title of the old sitcom, a homogenized portrait of American family life, was meant to be slightly sardonic.

Tom Shales

LifeFamilyBirthdayFatherMother

Some claim that computers will, by 2050, achieve human capabilities. Of course, in some respects they already have.

Martin Rees

ComputersAchieveWillHumanClaim

New York is my favorite city to visit because there is always something to do, someone to meet, and something to discover.

Michael Seibel

New YorkCitySomeoneNewMeet

I would be going until I went over the bounds of reality and was then caught up in a profound wish to be dead without having to go through the shaming defeat of suicide.

Joshua Logan

RealityWishSuicideDefeatGoDead

Great causes and little men go ill together.

Jawaharlal Nehru

GreatMenTogetherGoLittleCauses

I was probably 35 when I wrote the first story. The voice is kind of a mix in that it has a young voice, but it's also someone who's looking back. I like that kind of double vision.

Denis Johnson

VisionLooking BackLookingStory

My mom has gone out of her way in her personal life. She's been with me on the road. She's had to deal with people giving her the 'that's the mom' and arguing. Just little things as a businesswoman.

Christina Milian

LifePeopleMomLittle ThingsRoad

Being a cheap bastard now means so much more freedom and choices later.

Chris Sacca

FreedomChoicesNowMoreCheapMuch

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