"'Salaam Bombay' didn't put a halo on the poor. Instead, it said that they will teach us how to live."

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Source : "A Minute With: Mira Nair on Salaam Bombay". Interview with Shilpa Jamkhandikar, www.reuters.com. March 22, 2013.

Mira Nair

#Bombay Quotes #Halos Quotes #Poor Quotes

“The Spirit is both a builder and a dweller. He cannot dwell where he has not built; He builds to dwell and dwells in only what he has built.”
“My favorite movie ever is 'Bicycle Thieves.”
“We can send people to the Moon; we can see if there's life on Mars - why can't we get $5 [mosquito] nets to 500 million people?”
“People are happiest when they are giving, they are saddest when they are just taking. And that is the core message of community.”
“Touring doesn't kill me and I can handle it.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.”
“The contagious people of Washington have stood firm against diversity during this long period of increment weather.”
“A person whose skin is metallic can no more have its reproduction restricted than a black-skinned person. Regarding life as a form of machinery and intelligent machines as people without our environmental limitations is essential in understanding FAP, the Final Anthropic Principle, which deals with evolution in the far future.”

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