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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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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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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There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.
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What is dreaming, and what happens, and are there any real benefits to dreaming? Well, to take a step back, I think it's important to note that dreaming essentially is a time when we all become flagrantly psychotic.
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Football ruled my life for years, morning, noon and night.
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This is a truth that should be repeated like a mantra: to have any chance of a ful - filling life, we require not only clean air and a steady climate, but also an abundance of meadows and woodlands, rivers and oceans, teeming with life and the mass existence of other living creatures.
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Activism is very seductive, and writing is painful and hard. It's very scary to have a death threat living over your head. Activism is very sustaining. But I don't view myself as a political person. I'm just someone who desperately wants to stay alive.
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Pick up a rifle and you change instantly from a subject to a citizen.
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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.
