"We have to realize only in communication, in real knowledge, in real reaching out, can there be an understanding that there's humanity everywhere, and that's what I'm trying to do."

-- Mira Nair

#Real Quotes #Communication Quotes #Understanding Quotes

“It's the same at a rock-and-roll concert. You have an opening number with a strong entrance; then you go through a lot of the old standards, building up to your hit song at the end.”
“I have very good knife skills. I learned to butcher on my second job - I was 18 years old. Every other day we would break down six legs of veal.”
“Excesses are essentially gestures. It is easy to be extremely cruel, magnanimous, humble or self-sacrificing when we see ourselves as actors in a performance.”
“Merely watching a romantic comedy causes relationship satisfaction to plummet. Apparently, the bitter realization that maybe it could happen to us, but it obviously hasn't and it probably never will, makes our lives seem unbearably grim in comparison.”
“War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.”

Source : "The Civil War Generation". Book by Norman K. Risjord, p. 143, 2002.
“It's human nature to be curious about people, and to be more curious about young people than old people. We want to cheer something on at the same time we want to tear it down. That's just so normal.”
“God always puts somebody in your life at the right moment.”

Source : Source: theindiespiritualist.com
“Who would be an artist that was perfectly happy? Maybe nowadays, but when I grew up in the '60s, you had nobody in the art club who was popular. No cheerleaders in the art club. I was told that I couldn't be a painter by my first painting teacher. I said I wanted to go to Cooper and be an art student, and he said, "You'll be a waitress." It was really the strangely indifferent parenting.”

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