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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Nothing can injure a man's writing if he's a first-rate writer. If a man is not a first-rate writer, there's not anything can help it much. The problem does not apply if he is not first rate because he has already sold his soul for a swimming pool.
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Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
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The blacks have their parties, hustle a little liquor, get some things together, and I used to play for those peoples. They'd come get me on time, but they wouldn't bring me back on time... Done picked cotton all day, play all night long, then pick cotton all day the next day before I could get a chance to sleep.
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My father came from an intellectual and studious avenue as opposed to a brawler's avenue. So I had to go further afield and I brought all kinds of unscrupulous oiks back home - earless, toothless vagabonds - to teach me the arts of the old bagarre.
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I lived in Camden, Primrose Hill and Kentish Town for 10 years.
