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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Marriage has always been a state and local issue.
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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 and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.
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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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A move to a different town or school gives us new places to explore, new people to meet; a lost pet means we have to organize a careful search; baby-sitting requires looking out for dangers a young child can't foresee; a car crash or fire demands that we get help immediately.
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Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. Our life has no end in just the way in which our visual field has no limits. (6.4311)
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In 2010, when the Lotus Sutra was made available to me by a private dealer, I was very fortunate to be able to have it. It is very long, 30 feet or something crazy like that. It has some 15,000 very small standard script characters that the artist Zhao Mengfu in the Yuan dynasty made when he was in his 60s.
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There's no reason why the 'Lost' alternate reality game had to be officially made by the 'Lost' production crew.
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I make a timeless music. I think I've made my mark as a lyricist and as an innovator and as a tastemaker.
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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.
