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Quote by Mira Nair
I am at home in many cultures. I live actively in three continents

I am at home in many cultures. I live actively in three continents and Ive done that for most of my life, so I just make films as I see the world, and that happens to speak to people. I do things that I want to do. – Mira Nair

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

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Politics
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Mira Nair
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I often begin movies with music in my head its a very important dimension to me. Not just the music itself, but how to use music in film: when and how and subtlety. I dont like to be too sweet in my stories, and I like the abrasive clang, the contrasting of sounds and cultures. – Mira Nair

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movies
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With Vietnam, the Iraq War, so many American films about war are almost always from the American point of view. You almost never have a Middle Eastern character by name with a story. – Mira Nair

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War
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If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough. – Audrey Hepburn

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Nevertheless most of the evergreen forests of the north must always remain the home of wild animals and trappers, a backward region in which it is easy for a great fur company to maintain a practical monopoly. – Ellsworth Huntington

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I like to listen to mellow stuff on the road like Travis, as we are constantly surrounded by rock music on tour and so its nice listening to mellow stuff. Obviously back at home I listen to a lot more rock music. – Ville Valo

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The thing is, I have a zillion apps, and Im always looking for the perfect arrangement for them, so scrambling my home screen is part of that eternal quest. – Susan Orlean

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Home

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