"Truth is more peculiar than fiction. Life is really a startling place."

-- Mira Nair

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“Band-Aids don't fix bullet holes. You say sorry just for show. You live like that, you live with ghosts.”
“Everybody likes to go to Geneva. I used to do it for the Law of the Sea conferences and you'd find these potentates from down in Africa, you know, rather than eating each other, they'd just come up and get a good square meal in Geneva.”

Source : "The Democratic Party’s Two-Facedness of Race Relations", www.huffingtonpost.com. August 24, 2011.
“Viewing our planet was so compelling. Words like beautiful and awesome just don't do it justice. I felt that I was looking at a paradise. I was looking at heaven. I can't imagine any place being more beautiful than our planet and how lucky we are to be able to live here.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“I couldn't see who swam in the darkness, who wore shadows like a second skin.”
“Education is fundamental. And I know some aren't blessed to be afforded the luxury, 'cause as sad as it is in 2016, it is still a luxury. I'd say when you're young, look for someone, an older woman, you'd like to emulate. Not necessarily her career, but the soul and essence of that woman. I use women like Susan Taylor and Tyra Banks to girdle me up so I can find my own strength and forge my own path.”

Source : Source: www.ebony.com
“I don't think you should meet the people you most admire. I don't want reality to interfere with my image.”
“Videos are tricky because stuff sounds amazing on paper and it seems like it's going to be this mystical experience and you're going to look back and go, "Wow, that was magic." But more times than not, it doesn't end up that way, so I never know what I'm going to get.”
“When you truly know the meaning of the word love, you will also know the meaning of the word pain.”

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