Asif Kapadia Quotes
'Do the Right Thing' has been a big influence on me. I saw it when it first came out in 1989. I was about 18, and it blew me away on many levels - I had never seen anything like it before.
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My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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I don't know that my schooling was conducive to wild ideas and creativity, but it gave me discipline, drive. They taught me how to think. I really know how to think.
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Before the Greeks were the Tamils. The Tamils are one of the oldest civilizations that's still surviving.
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And I'm always interested when other musicians are trying to discover new worlds of sound.
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Now there is a new group every week; it seems like everybody and anybody can get into the charts.
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It's possible that you have been told a time or 10 that you don't appreciate how tough your elders had it. It's true that, if you had been coming of age back in, say, 1960, you would probably be feeling more restricted, if only because you were doomed to spend your days in a skirt, nylon stockings and girdle.
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For me, it's easier to play with my right foot. It's simple. If I go right, I see Diego and have different solutions: I go alone or pass to Diego, or the midfield can join in. If I go the other way, the cross with my left foot is not good.
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It was very difficult to control the descent. At a height of seven kilometres, I catapulted out of my capsule and parachuted down to Earth. I was very familiar with parachutes because I was a sky diver before.
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You can almost read any emotion through someone's eyes.
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You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can only make a monkey out of the voters every four years!
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In papergaming, players can look at a character sheet of their own creation and see all of their skills, right there, in black and white.
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Buying found objects means repurposing something that was already made years before, sometimes decades before. It strikes a nice balance between the new and used equation we should strive for in our lives.
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We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.
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New information makes new and fresh ideas possible.
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My grandfather was a cop in Long Island. I often try to draw on things that I've heard about him.
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Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth. So let's all go exploring.
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I've been fortunate. I've worked in a lot of things where I had those kinds of experiences with actors who were perceived as very macho guys, everybody from Lee Marvin to Charlie Bronson to Harrison Ford to Robert Shaw.
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Information theory began as a bridge from mathematics to electrical engineering and from there to computing.
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I am a ball player in the summer and a farmer in the winter time, and I aim to be a success at both professions.
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I loved the gentlemanly way they treated each other. It was unlike anything I was used to. I started helping them strike the set and, at 11, began taking acting classes privately.
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I'm very wary of fawning too much over heroes. There's an old adage that heroes are best kept at arm's length, and in a few instances in my life, that's been true.
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'Do the Right Thing' has been a big influence on me. I saw it when it first came out in 1989. I was about 18, and it blew me away on many levels - I had never seen anything like it before.
