Asif Kapadia Quotes
A big part of my filmmaking is that I can go somewhere new and, visually, be excited by it.
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Even if I'm gone all day, breakfast is the one meal I always cook for my kids. I make French toast, oatmeal, or an egg burrito.
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I depend on good editors and a good director.
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No matter where you are on the political spectrum, libraries make sense. It's such a small investment. Every dollar supporting a library system returns five dollars to the community.
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My wife and I have very deep roots in Colorado, and we can't see ourselves living anywhere else.
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I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about jazz.
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A lot of people have a sense-of-entitlement mentality that somebody else ought to do these things for them. People are mad at the government for not getting jobs for them. I don't understand why it's the government's responsibility.
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There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
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My day goes from one embarrassing moment to the next.
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Sometimes I feel as if I am read before I write. When I write a poem about my mother, Palestinians think my mother is a symbol for Palestine. But I write as a poet, and my mother is my mother. She's not a symbol.
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You have to find ways to relate to the characters you get to play. Put it in terms and in a context that speaks to you.
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I'm not hiding anything. What you see is what you get.
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I never ran with my dad. He was old-school. He had a whole different idea of training. He ran in steel-toed boots! But, of course, he's proud of me and proud of the boxer that I became.
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I feel like I'm quite versatile. I want to do lots of different styles.
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In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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I will say this: I've had more pro-life bills, I believe, I ruled unconstitutional - but I tried - than the entire total membership of Congress together.
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Everything I ask is a question from Tamron, like it or not. My team does not write my questions. We put together a segment. We talk about the elements that I want, but we have a conversation for that hour with our guests.
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Like crime, terrorism is a fact of life. I grew up in Israel, where every unattended bag was a suspected bomb; when my family moved for a few years, it was to London in the early years of 'the Troubles.'
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There's a relationship between music and spirituality and inspiration and to a certain extent improvisation that draws me in, because I don't totally understand it. I know that those relationships have been telling me, since I started making records, where to go. What to write down.
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You might occasionally feel that some people are standing in the way and slowing your progress, but in reality the biggest person standing in your way is you. Others can stop you temporarily - you are the only one who can do it permanently.
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We like being English, but we're not that patriotic.
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Eating a slice of white bread is like eating pure sugar.
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A big part of my filmmaking is that I can go somewhere new and, visually, be excited by it.
