"I know what it's like to be in one place and dream of another. I also know what it's like to feel that nostalgia is a fairly useless thing because it is stasis."

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Mira Nair

#Dream Quotes #Useless Quotes #Nostalgia Quotes

“Books, I don't know what you see in them. I can understand a person reading them, but I can't for the life of me see why people have to write them.”
“The work of the inventor consists of conceptualizing, combining, and ordering what is possible according to the laws of nature. This inner working out which precedes the external has a twofold characteristic: the participation of the subconscious in the inventing subject; and that encounter with an external power which demands and obtains complete subjugation, so that the way to the solution is experienced as the fitting of one's own imagination to this power.”
“My youngest daughter sings. She's going to be very good. She's graduated from Music School and she's been working down around and getting her feet wet, you know. I had her out with me for a year just showing her the ropes a little bit, but she's going to be all right.”
“Credo Mutwa, the most knowledgeable man i have ever had the honor of knowing.”
“About 70% of what I've written about is centered on the clashes and conformities between the emerging life and physical sciences and older metaphysical frameworks in the 17th and 18th centuries. The other 30% consists of one-off essays or researches into other intriguing contemporary topics such as visual experience, aesthetics, social justice issues, and the epistemology of moral knowledge.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“The fundamental problem with program maintenance is that fixing a defect has a substantial (20-50 percent) chance of introducing another. So the whole process is two steps forward and one step back..”
“Indifference is the invisible giant of the world.”
“If I don't laugh at least 20 times a day - it hasn't been a good day.”

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