Asif Kapadia Quotes
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What gets people into trouble with records now is that they want to build something up without substantial musical ideas. Without that as a foundation, you can add all the layers of sound you want - it's still going to sound like a mess.
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Nothing endures but personal qualities.
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Go West, young man.
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I live my life by these little church signs you see as you drive around, and there's one near me that says, 'If we really knew each other, we would neither idolise nor condemn.' And that's it: if we all knew each other, then we wouldn't treat anybody any different. And there wouldn't be any big stars, I guess.
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I'd like it if people thought I was Jewish looking.
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If I'm going to wind up playing left, I want to be the best left fielder in the game. I'll work to be that.
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I would be the worst biologist in the world!
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In order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.
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If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included.
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I have 'Happy Birthday' in multiple languages on my iPod - I like to play it at company birthday parties.
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If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
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It is as deadly for a mind to have a system as to have none. Therefore it will have to decide to combine both.
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I'd call myself the mediator. I kind of just float around and do my own thing. I'm kind of chilled out, laid back.
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Cold, impossible, ahead Lifts the mountain's lovely head Whose white waterfall could bless Travellers in their last distress.
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It's the wheel of the world - turning around.
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We want all the Palestinians back in their homeland, and then there can be a fair referendum for people to choose the form of state they want. Whoever gets the majority can rule.
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The First Amendment isn't about free thought and free opinion and free belief. The First Amendment is about free exercise-the carrying into practice of religious principles, and beliefs, and convictions.
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The learning process continues until the day you die.
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I take the work seriously. Which is why I always swing for the fences whenever I voice a character. But that said, I don't take myself all that seriously.
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We need to return to learning about the land by being on the land, or better, by being in the thick of it. That is the best way we can stay in touch with the fates of its creatures, its indigenous cultures, its earthbound wisdom. That is the best way we can be in touch with ourselves.
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I'm more and more fascinated in my own work. I work from 10 A.M. until about 9 P.M., but it's not an obsession, it's a pleasure. There's never enough time.
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Most of our models have just walked in off the streets, although I also find them on countless trips to Europe - particularly Scandinavia. I operate by instinct. It's a process I cannot explain, but the prettiest girl on the block is not always the best model.
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We already solved the problem of feeding the world in the 1960s, when we started serving cheeseburgers.
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'Amy' is somewhere in the middle of authorized and unauthorized.
