Mira Nair Quotes

New York City is home to so many people from so many places and the uniqueness of it is that you never feel a foreigner. English is almost hardly ever heard in the subway. In fact, it's weird.

Mira Nair

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

HomeNew YorkPeopleCityWeirdYou

The sad truth is that most of my husbands turned out to be convincing liars.

Joan Collins

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The public gets not one penny from them in return for those airwaves.

Robert McChesney

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I do some 400 m. repetition running for endurance on the court. I'll be in the gym lifting weights, or I'll be putting in a lot of core stability to work to improve my balance.

Andy Murray

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For people who are readers, reading is important to them.

Jeff Bezos

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Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works.

John Updike

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In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant. One motto on the show is, 'Keep your facts, I'm going with the truth.'

Stephen Colbert

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I've loved hip-hop all of my life, but there came a time in my life when my entire life had a shift: where, before, I was just kind of going to church every now and then; then, there was an actual change, where I actually understood who Jesus was, actually understood the message of the Gospel, and my entire life changed.

Trip Lee

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The fact of the matter is, people care about their own human interests: the people they love, their families, and their communities.

Tom Steyer

LovePeopleCareMatterHumanOwn

There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know.

Robert Fitzgerald

RelationshipKnowOwnMustJust

I think in New York we had respect and we would pretty much fill up the places where we went, but I never got the sense that we really were Number 1 here in New York among the Latin crowds.

Ruben Blades

RespectNew YorkThinkNewNeverUp

Liberty does not exist where rights are on one side and power on the other. To be liberty, rights must be armed with vital powers. A people cannot be free who do not participate in the control of the government which operates upon them.

Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II

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I was a young, new, hot star, and I had this unbelievable arrogance. As time went on, the strident narcissism and arrogance slowly diminished. But I was definitely there. I'm older now. And a big crybaby.

Chevy Chase

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