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The dignity of everyday life - the beauty of it, the attitude of it - is what I live around. And it is never on screen, and it is certainly never associated with Africa. If we see Africa at all, it is always used as a backdrop: a big blob of a continent rather than a specific street or a country or a place.Mira Nair
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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
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Christmas lights may be the loneliest thing for me, especially if you mix them up with reindeers and sleighs. I feel alone. I feel isolated. I feel I do not belong.Mira Nair
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I love the idea that it doesn't take one person only to achieve your potential. It takes a village, it takes a community, a street, a teacher, a mother.Mira Nair
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I listen to Ustad Vilayat Khan's 'Raga Khamaj' and 'Raga Jaijaiwanti' virtually every morning, a lot of Abdullah Ibrahim, Michael Kiwanuka, Savages, and contemporary Ugandan pop.Mira Nair
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I think, in terms of activism associated with my films, be it 'Salaam Baalak Trust' or 'Maisha, ' taking the idea of cinema as a way to change people, I feel heartened. I am glad that we have impacted thousands of lives.Mira Nair
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You know, the sad thing of post-9/11, which was of course horrific, was that the city in which I felt completely at home for two decades, suddenly people like us - brown people - were looked at as the 'Others.'Mira Nair
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My family is almost exactly like the one in 'Monsoon Wedding'. We are very open, fairly liberal, loud people.Mira Nair
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It gave me a lot of pleasure and pride that 90 percent of the crew for 'Monsoon Wedding, ' and most of my film, are women. We get the work done, you know, much lesser play of ego... And I really believe in harmony, I believe in working in a spirit of egolessness and that the film is bigger than all of us.Mira Nair