Asif Kapadia Quotes
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Body experience... is the centre of creation.
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The whole kiss-and-tell thing is a negative approach that often happens in a World Cup. We will see negative stories about the players and it can affect their confidence and the overall performance of the national team on the pitch, let alone the bid to actually stage the competition.
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'Dancing with the Stars' is awesome.
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I love playing women, and I think that this is a throughline to a lot of the characters I've played - they all have this aspect of being wronged. And I think, a lot of the time, the characters are actually wronged by themselves, and they find someone else to blame it on.
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Some days you feel like this is really going well. You can tell. Other days, you're just drawing like a farmer and you don't know why.
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A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.
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Do not meet or overtake a patient who is moving about in order to speak to him or to give him any message or letter. You might just as well give him a box on the ear. I have seen a patient fall flat on the ground who was standing when his nurse came into the room.
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I know enough about European politics to know you've got a lot of crazy people who make their way onto the ballot.
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That thing, 'You must stay together for the kids', is out of fashion but is right. It's not arguing parents that children don't like, it is having one parent.
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I've always found it embarrassing to receive awards.
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I'm concerned and alarmed about the images of girls and women that are broadcast every single minute.
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The music I listened to as a kid - the Stones, the Beatles - that was so rebellious at the time, it became mainstream.
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I didn't realize I was still grieving for my father at 30-something.
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In this heat every extra gesture was an affront to the common store of life.
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She had that irony in her eyes. Knowledge without wisdom. Power without purpose. Like me.
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All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.
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The heart of manipulation is to empathize without being touched.
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Hence when the man of science says, 'There is no God,' he only gives voice to the feeling of the inadequacy of the old anthropomorphic conception, in the presence of the astounding facts of the universe.
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I just remembered songs my grandmother taught me, and songs that I learned for the recordings. But, then I learned to speak Italian. When I was there, I hired a professor who stayed with me 24 hours a day. She wouldn't let me speak a word of English.
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Marie Stopes had established the first birth control clinic in Britain; the whole question of informing women, especially those who were poor, about methods of contraception, began to be discussed.
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Everybody wants to be somebody. The thing you have to do is give them confidence they can. You have to give a kid a dream.
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I lived in Camden, Primrose Hill and Kentish Town for 10 years.
