Quote by Mira Nair
New York City is home to so many people from so many places and th

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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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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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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In America, we have so many movies and so much media about the Islamic world, the sub-continental world, but its not a conversation, its a monologue. Its always from one point of view. If we dont tell our own stories, no one will tell them is my mantra. – Mira Nair

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movies
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A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possibility that the other may be right, though neither believes it. – Don Fraser

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Im still really close with everyone at home and their parents – and their brothers and sisters. I was so, so, so lucky to grow up as part of a community and I dont take that for granted. I try very hard to stay part of it. – Jennifer Garner

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Home

In the true sense ones native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home. – Emma Goldman

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Home

I feel like Ive never had a home, you know? I feel related to the country, to this country, and yet I dont know exactly where I fit in… Theres always this kind of nostalgia for a place, a place where you can reckon with yourself. – Sam Shepard

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