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 am firmly convinced that there is life after death, not in a primitive sense but as the entry of my completely finite person into God's infinity, as a transition into another reality beyond the dimension of space and time that pure reason can neither affirm nor deny.
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I still when I wake up hit the ground running; and having an illness, I'm only one of hundreds of thousands of people that live with an illness, and I'm just in awe of the bravery and dignity of the people I see at the hospital.
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The problem we have in the WTA circuit is that the girls do not have a good relationship because we play against each other, and it's a sport.
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I want to aspire to something like what Denzel Washington does, which is try to find scripts written for white actors - or Jodie Foster, who reads scripts for male actors.
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I lived in Camden, Primrose Hill and Kentish Town for 10 years.
