Quote by Mira Nair
You know, the sad thing of post-9/11, which was of course horrific

You know, the sad thing of post-9/11, which was of course horrific, was that the city in which I felt completely at home for two decades, suddenly people like us – brown people – were looked at as the Others. – Mira Nair

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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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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, its weird. – Mira Nair

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We have to realize only in communication, in real knowledge, in real reaching out, can there be an understanding that theres humanity everywhere, and thats what Im trying to do. – Mira Nair

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How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home. – William Cowper

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We need to rediscover the idea of the common good and work together to build a home. – Jonathan Sacks

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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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Dont get me wrong – Ive gone to a club. But Id much rather be with my close friends at home or a concert, or on a trip. Ill go dancing with my grandma. She likes to cut a rug! – Zac Efron

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We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action. – Frank Tibolt

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Three chords and the truth – thats what a country song is. – Willie Nelson

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It is those who concentrates on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality. – Og Mandino

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