Asif Kapadia Quotes
Hopefully with digital projection, a film will always look the way the filmmaker intended.
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His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.
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I mean, I think we're put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with. I don't think there's anything you can do this way or that way to change anything.
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My goal is to improve my game, stay healthy and be competitive. If I have that, I know I can be able to win tournaments, which in the end is what it counts.
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Along with racial equality and the late bloom of women's rights, future generations will have to explain how, in the past, gays were misunderstood and publicly humiliated for loving each other, and, eventually, how they stood together and conquered stupidity and hypocritical hatred, and fought their way out of marginalization.
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Well, I like chocolate stuff; I don't like any of that other gross sugary candy.
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There are lots of things I am not good at. I'm not that good a singer. And I'm a good dad but a lousy husband because I work far too much and am not at home as much as I would like.
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It often happens that the man who pursues the dollar too diligently finds it hard to catch, but if he will pursue some other and better goal, dollars come around to see what sort of fellow he is.
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We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom.
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I like heels and make-up.
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Shouldn't you put the same amount of effort into your giving as you might for your for-profit investments? After all, philanthropy is an investment, and one in which lives - not profits - are at stake.
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The idea of a world where all people are alike - in wealth or in anything else - is a fantasy for the stupid.
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I was in a Montessori school. There was a drum circle with all the kids passing around a little bongo drum. I was the last person in the circle, and when it got to me I played 'Shave and a Haircut, Two Bits' - in front of all the parents. Blew the crowd away at five years old.
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Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
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First, I have to read something and find it interesting and like the story. If I don't understand it fully, but there is something in there that is interesting, then it takes a director to convince me. If he can't do that, then I don't go with it. It doesn't matter where the project comes from.
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The work of creation is never without travail
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The responsibility for violence lies with those who perpetrate it.
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If you get typecast, it's up to you to break that. Since I started real young, getting roles where they would ask me to take my clothes off, I would get those types of scripts over and over. The fact that I'm still here and working... I don't know if it's so much because of my performances or something else.
Nastassja Kinski -
God cannot be compared to anything. Note this.
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I just like to shake things up, and your hair is one way to do it.
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Play is always a fantasy, but once you get into the frame, it is quite real, and everything you do is real. You put acres and acres of real movement and real action and real belief in it.
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You always need to be on the lookout for the next kind of great technology.
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Spread your wings and let me come inside.
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Hopefully with digital projection, a film will always look the way the filmmaker intended.
