Asif Kapadia Quotes
My background is from India, and I always get asked, 'When are you going to do an Indian film, a musical or Bollywood film?'
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When I was little I had this notion of being a marine biologist. I grew up by the ocean so I was always in the water but realistically, I don't think I would make the best marine biologist.
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This is why cup finals are so special because on the day anyone can beat anyone. That's what it's all about and that's why for me the FA Cup and the Carling Cup are the best cups in the world. That's the beauty of the cup.
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When we moved to England in 1986, I was ten years old and I didn't know anything about punk or hip hop. The only words I knew in English were 'dance' and 'Michael Jackson.' We got put in a flat in Mitchum, and the council gave us second hand furniture, second hand clothes and a second hand radio that I took to bed with me every night.
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After the children grew up, I began to focus on my writing. My first books were part of a trilogy... The 'Wind Dance' trilogy.
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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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I have got a fantastic life and I just like to get on with it, and I am quite a private person.
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Ben Rome was a perfectionist. He checked every letter that went out to make sure the English was correct.
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Now obviously the propositions of the system have reference to matters of empirical fact; if they did not, they could have no claim to be called scientific.
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The war on terror is the war in Afghanistan.
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Do not look down upon any Muslim, for even the most inferior believer is great in the eyes of God.
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Is this the situation in the modern Conservative party? That women should be seen and not heard?
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I hope to have more than one main weapon. I have the Phenomenal Forearm as we're calling it now, the Calf Crusher - the Styles Clash is still available. I like to have a lot of alternative moves to hit people with, and whatever seems to work is what I'll go with.
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Breast cancer deaths in America have been declining for more than a decade. Much of that success is due to early detection and better treatments for women. I strongly encourage women to get a mammogram.
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Health care is a design problem. Dependence on foreign oil is a design problem. To some extent, poverty is a design problem. We need design thinkers to solve those problems, and most people who are in positions of political power are not design thinkers, to put it mildly.
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I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.
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The Church became both more accessible and less imposing. It threw itself open to risk.
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This is an industry, it's a business. We exist to make money. We exist to put commercials on the air. The programming that is put on between those commercials is simply the bait we put in the mousetrap. 1
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Tell me, my soul, can this be death?
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I'd never say no to surgery in the future, because I feel like, as I get older, I'm going to face temptation more.
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I spend all day replying to tweets and reblogging posts and sharing fan art. I think it's the most important thing I can possibly do, to stay involved in the community as a part of the community, not ahead of the community. I'm very much the same level of them in it.
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O Mariner-soul, Thy quest is but begun, There are new worlds Forever to be won.
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They said no one knew a man as well as a woman who slept with him.
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My background is from India, and I always get asked, 'When are you going to do an Indian film, a musical or Bollywood film?'
