Mira Bartok quote: "Some of my old memories feel trapped in amber in my brain, lucid and burning, while others are like the wing beat of a hummingbird, an intangible, ephemeral blur."

He [Nicolaus Steno] told the audience, "Beautiful is what we see. More beautiful is what we understa...
MIRA BARTOK

We children of schizophrenics are the great secret keepers, the ones who don't want you to think tha...
MIRA BARTOK

Children of the mentally ill learn early on how not to be a bother, especially if they grew up with ...
MIRA BARTOK

We humans are different - our brains are built not to fix memories in stone but rather to transform ...
MIRA BARTOK

Competitions are for horse, not artist.
BELA BARTOK

Our peasant music, naturally, is invariably tonal, if not always in the sense that the inflexible ma...
BELA BARTOK

In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolu...
BELA BARTOK

I cannot conceive of music that expresses absolutely nothing.
BELA BARTOK

Competitions are for horses, not artists.
BELA BARTOK

I cannot conceive of music that expresses absolutely nothing
BELA BARTOK

It's the relationships between people that are more important than the sort of far away fantasie...
MIRA SORVINO

Our story opens where countless stories have ended in the last twenty-six years: with an idiot -- in...
MIRA GRANT

'Salaam Bombay' didn't put a halo on the poor. Instead, it said that they will teach us ...
MIRA NAIR

Nothing is impossible to kill. It's just that sometimes after you kill something you have to keep sh...
MIRA GRANT

You know how in high school you do these plays and people come up after the show and they're really ...
MIRA SORVINO

I went to the root of things, and found nothing but Him alone.
MIRA BAI

The Oscars have become such a big deal these days that it's just used as adjective.
MIRA SORVINO

It is what it is. Isn't that how these things always go? They are what they are. We just get to cope...
MIRA GRANT

The dignity of everyday life - the beauty of it, the attitude of it - is what I live around. And it ...
MIRA NAIR

There was something about being in front of audiences when I was in elementary school plays that gav...
MIRA SORVINO

I am Indian, and my home is Kampala. My world is already diverse. But films are financed by those wh...
MIRA NAIR

I always like to reveal the fact that the emperor has no clothes. And children are best at that. The...
MIRA NAIR

I'm doing things that are more artistic again, more close to the material that I love. I don'...
MIRA SORVINO

I often begin movies with music in my head; it's a very important dimension to me. Not just the ...
MIRA NAIR

We never see the fancy schools with the blazers and ties in films about Africa! But, in fact, we too...
MIRA NAIR

I have a hard time getting motivated to do something that seems like a career move. I've gotten ...
MIRA SORVINO

The hospital is using the lock-out as a bargaining tactic.
MIRA PRASAD

Middle-class Pakistani cultural life is what I've seen, what I know - they're not all scream...
MIRA NAIR

I've loved 'Vanity Fair' since I was 16 years old. You know, we're all colonial hang...
MIRA NAIR

Katwe is fifteen minutes from my home. It's entirely about knowing it from the inside. For insta...
MIRA NAIR

They say now in America that final cut doesn't mean anything. As Harvey Weinstein said to some f...
MIRA NAIR

We have three generations at home, including my father-in-law. I keep a very low profile, and a lot ...
MIRA NAIR

Either you're this, or you're that: either you're - if you're a Pakistani, you'r...
MIRA NAIR

I am actually a resident of three worlds - of America, of India, and of Africa. I live in Uganda mos...
MIRA NAIR

In America, we have so many movies and so much media about the Islamic world, the sub-continental wo...
MIRA NAIR

I grew up thinking anything was possible simply because of seeing women in power - like, you know, r...
MIRA NAIR

Think about that for a moment. They died for you. Now take a good look at the life you're living and...
MIRA GRANT

I'm inspired by people that are marginal. I'm excited by their resilience.
MIRA NAIR

Life is short, so I'm knowing exactly where I'm putting my time. I don't want to do thin...
MIRA NAIR

I'll challenge senators and kings for the right to know the truth, but far be it from me to challeng...
MIRA GRANT

Any good Irwin can make going to the corner store for a candy bar and a Coke lood death defying and ...
MIRA GRANT

I grew up in a very small town which is remote even by Indian standards. I always dreamed of the wor...
MIRA NAIR

We're going to be a family of four.
MIRA SORVINO

We felt she should have her own history of sexual abuse . . . which makes her feel very deeply about...
MIRA SORVINO

These are women who are beaten, raped, sold . . . mentally dominated, threatened that their families...
MIRA SORVINO

I (didn't) want to feel embarrassed doing this really zany character.
MIRA SORVINO

Yeah. They're never easy to do. I don't like doing sex scenes! I feel they're really miserable to ma...
MIRA SORVINO

I had a Christian upbringing - it was all about sin and guilt. I was very happy just kissing people....
MIRA SORVINO

There's a side of my personality that goes completely against the East Coast educated person and wan...
MIRA SORVINO

I guess in the end, it doesn’t matter what we wanted. What matters is what we chose to do with the...
MIRA GRANT

Words have power.
MIRA GRANT

Post 9/11, so much has changed in New York that it does not give you that homely feeling which it di...
MIRA NAIR

What is important to a relationship is a harmony of emotional roles and not too great a disparity in...
MIRA KOMAROVSKY

She really talks to you, doesn't she?" She asked. "it's not just you talking to her. She talks BACK....
MIRA GRANT

The bad event gave you the strength you needed in your foundation to make possible the next wonderfu...
MIRA KIRSHENBAUM

And then everything was in the hands of gravity, which has never had much love for the terminally st...
MIRA GRANT

The only thing we have in this world that is utterly and intrinsically ours is our integrity.
MIRA GRANT

For an interest to be rewarding, one must pay in discipline and dedication, especially though the di...
MIRA KOMAROVSKY

There was a sort of diagram. Everything else that was said was really stuff that came out of our own...
MIRA SORVINO

She told the truth as she saw it, and she died for it. I came along for the ride, and I lived. It wa...
MIRA GRANT

Behold the power of the truth. When people see its shadow on the wall, they don't want to take the t...
MIRA GRANT

George, she says it's the truth that matters. We live and die for the chance to maybe tell a little ...
MIRA GRANT

My family is vital to me - just the sense of being surrounded by no pretension.
MIRA NAIR

A lot of us feel that we are against the war; we are against profiling and are against what is happe...
MIRA NAIR

We have not learned the lessons of 9/11. This wrongful suspicion, racial hatred, and profiling is wh...
MIRA NAIR

Given a choice between life and death, choose life. Given a choice between right and wrong, choose w...
MIRA GRANT

Somehow, all the talk about tenure and anthropology had given her visions of a thick-walled, librari...
MIRA JACOB

Of course he had a female following. Was there anything college girls found sexier than being told w...
MIRA JACOB

I like to be unabashed, which is an Indian trait, both emotionally and visually. It's important to h...
MIRA NAIR

We have to realize only in communication, in real knowledge, in real reaching out, can there be an u...
MIRA NAIR

Acting is doing, because everything you say or do is some kind of an action, some kind of a verb. Yo...
MIRA SORVINO

And to those who would choose the safety of inaction over the danger of taking a stand, I have this ...
MIRA GRANT

In Uganda, I am surrounded, unfortunately, by evangelicals; I can't bear it. Every night I hear ...
MIRA NAIR

I'm a self-taught landscape gardener; it's a real passion of mine. It's what I do in my ...
MIRA NAIR

I can see every day that a squirrel's perfectly at home in a world of trees. But imagine taking that...
MIRA KIRSHENBAUM

Hot, short, thorough," I said. I hesitated before adding, "Please." It never pays to insult computer...
MIRA GRANT

I listen to Ustad Vilayat Khan's 'Raga Khamaj' and 'Raga Jaijaiwanti' virtually ...
MIRA NAIR

If you've been fortunate enough to discover that the meaning of what happened to you is that you hav...
MIRA KIRSHENBAUM

Never treat anything you do as a stepping stone. Do it fully, and follow it completely.
MIRA NAIR

...they come to us, these restless dead,
Shrouds woven from the words of men,
With trumpet...
MIRA GRANT

I immediately was captured by 'The Reluctant Fundamentalist.' It gave me a springboard into ...
MIRA NAIR

You know, the sad thing of post-9/11, which was of course horrific, was that the city in which I fel...
MIRA NAIR

Shaun get your sister her glasses. She looks naked without them. It's creeping me out.
MIRA GRANT

I just find it interesting that kids apparently used to cry when Bambi's mother died. George and I b...
MIRA GRANT

He didn't have much strength to offer, but what he did have was hers without question.
MIRA GRANT

Post-traumatic shock,' said Shaun. 'He thinks he's a boa constrictor.
MIRA GRANT

We are a nation equally afraid of gathering together and being alone.
MIRA GRANT

People crave fear.
MIRA GRANT

His idea of traffic safety is going too fast for the cops to catch up.
MIRA GRANT

I'm a decent sprinter and I can gun a motorcycle from zero to suicidal in less than ten seconds.
MIRA GRANT

...although I had to admit a certain affection for the Mattel booth advertising Urban Survival Barbi...
MIRA GRANT

Danger is a side effect of what I do, not the reason behind it.
MIRA GRANT

Rick stared at him. "Your brother is an alien."
"Yeah, but he's a cute one.
MIRA GRANT

He'll die first, we both know it, but I don't know... I really don't know how long I'll stay alive w...
MIRA GRANT

That,' he said, with almost religious fever, 'was the coolest thing you have ever done. In fact, tha...
MIRA GRANT

Failure to die is always appreciated.
MIRA GRANT

If we didn't fear the truths we didn't hear, we'd lose the need to fear the ones we did.
MIRA GRANT

I am, in fact, immortal when annoyed.
MIRA GRANT

I’m also fascinated by the difference between terror and fear. Fear says, “Do not actually put y...
MIRA GRANT

My father has always had just one piece of advice about zombies and ammunition, one he’s drilled i...
MIRA GRANT

You can't kill the truth.
MIRA GRANT

Are you ever not a pessimist?"

"Sometimes. But then I wake up.
MIRA GRANT

This is the truth: We are a nation accustomed to being afraid. If I’m being honest, not just with ...
MIRA GRANT

Me, I say those are all great things to live for, if they're what happens to float your boat, but at...
MIRA GRANT

Alive or dead, the truth won't rest. Rise up while you can.
MIRA GRANT

Every life has a watershed moment, an instant when you realize you're about to make a choice that wi...
MIRA GRANT

My mother once told me that no woman is naked when she comes equipped with a bad mood and a steady g...
MIRA GRANT

The difference between the truth and a lie is that both of them can hurt, but only one will take the...
MIRA GRANT

There is nothing so patient, in this world or any other, as a virus searching for a host.
MIRA GRANT

People blame science. Shit, man, people shouldn’t blame science. People should blame people.
MIRA GRANT

This is crap," Shaun said, withdrawing his arm.

"Right," I agreed.

"Absolutel...
MIRA GRANT

I watch on occasion, just to see what is going on. I have never really been a fan of a TV show. I do...
MIRA FURLAN

We wanted to conduct spot checks to follow up with Wal-Mart to make sure they're keeping their promi...
MIRA SIGNER

Because—truth?—on the scale of significance, that stuff doesn’t even register.

Wha...
MIRA LYN KELLY

The play juxtaposes scenes from the present with scenes that were happening in 1809 and 1812.
DR. MIRA WIEGMANN

I think that in the postmodern era in which we live we're influenced by attitudes for the past and t...
DR. MIRA WIEGMANN

it's you who makes me excited every weekend.. it's you who relieves me of my stress from the whole w...
MIRA CIELE S. BUSANGILAN

Some of my old memories feel trapped in amber in my brain, lucid and burning, while others are like the wing beat of a hummingbird, an intangible, ephemeral blur.

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Some of my old memories feel trapped in amber in my brain, lucid and burning, while others are like the wing beat of a hummingbird, an intangible, ephemeral blur.

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