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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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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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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We all accept the visual shorthand used throughout comics: if something's farther away, it'll be drawn with a thinner, simpler line, eventually leaving out most visual information and becoming a gesture, a skeletal representation of a thing.
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Science fiction writers have usually been very poor prognosticators of the future, either in literary or technological terms, and that's because we're all too human and, I think, have the tendency to see what we want to or, in the case of those more paranoid, what we fear.
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You can make positive deposits in your own economy every day by reading and listening to powerful, positive, life-changing content and by associating with encouraging and hope-building people.
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Lady writer on the TVShe had all the brains and the beauty.The picture does not fitYou talked to me when you felt like it.Just the way that her hair fell down around her faceThen I recall my fall from graceAnother time, another place.
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We're not looking at banning all weapons.
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I go every year to the Huvafen Fushi in the Maldives and it's spectacular.
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It's amazing what you don't see, though. Even when it's right in front of your eyes.
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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.
