Asif Kapadia Quotes
Weirdly enough, I live in London - was born there and have lived there all my life - but I hadn't made a film in London for a long time. I hadn't found the right subject. I liked going away, to some far flung place.
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I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.
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If even in science there is no a way of judging a theory but by assessing the number, faith and vocal energy of its supporters, then this must be even more so in the social sciences: truth lies in power.
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I paint for the sheer joy of painting. I have never sold any of my paintings. I'd rather give them to people for free.
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Ninety percent of the comic books I've written in the past had little or nothing to do with Islam.
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My mother has been the greatest influence on my life, morally. When I get right down to it, my mother and father are two people I can count on no matter what.
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Each of us becomes a new person as we re-describe the past.
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I just cannot imagine why anyone would want to be really famous. You go to a restaurant and people are pointing at you and they talk about you and they whisper and it is very disconcerting; it is a very odd feeling.
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I get really upset seeing my friends who are mums crying because they feel like they're not good enough. Clever, confident, kind young women all going, 'I'm ruining my child's life.'
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I am blessed to have worked in big-budget films at an early stage of my career.
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I have to stay calm, cool, and collected.
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For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'
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Although the pineapple had been widely disseminated for centuries among the native peoples of South and Central America, it didn't figure in European history until 1493.
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Dancing has always been a passion of mine.
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I don't think being a writer who is religious means you have to write about nothing but religion. When I do write about religion, it's to inform the story, not to push a certain agenda.
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I believe the Thai people are patient, and the people at least give me a chance to prove my ability to help them.
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I've said some things about other religions that I regret now. I think they were incorrect.
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Your memories from your early childhood seem to have such purchase on your emotions. They are so concrete.
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I'm an actor first and foremost, who happens to do improv. I've also done sitcoms, I've done stage.
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It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.
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Governments, whatever their pretensions otherwise, try to preserve themselves by holding the individual down ... Government itself, indeed, may be reasonably defined as a conspiracy against him. Its one permanent aim, whatever its form, is to hobble him sufficiently to maintain itself.
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Egypt needs law and order in Sinai to save the tourist industry in Sharm el-Sheik and prevent the area from becoming a base for terrorists that will target Egypt itself, as well as Jordan and Israel.
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We live in a friendly universe. At the heart of all things is goodness. We receive this goodness in the measure to which we cultivate friendship with the universe.
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I conceive that the description so often given of a Benthamite, as a mere reasoning machine, though extremely inapplicable to most of those who have been designated by that title, was during two or three years of my life not altogether untrue of me.
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Weirdly enough, I live in London - was born there and have lived there all my life - but I hadn't made a film in London for a long time. I hadn't found the right subject. I liked going away, to some far flung place.
