Asif Kapadia Quotes
I worked in TV for a short time and couldn't stand the fact that we'd always be filming someone talking, just giving information.
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I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.
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I wear the Jewish star, but I'm not - I haven't converted to Judaism, and I'm not - I'm not - I'm not Jewish in the conventional sense because the Kaballah is a belief system that predates religion and predates Judaism as an organized religion.
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When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
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I think Twitter is the future of communications and Square will be the payment network.
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Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.
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I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony.
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In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
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I certainly was one of the instigators in the 1960s of freedom of expression.
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I'll tell you something: my dad was a nuclear engineer and he was really bright, and I've always said that because of negotiating at such a young age with my dad, it was really such a gift because I could then negotiate with very difficult personalities - and not end up being the scapegoat. I learned to really pick and choose my battles.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
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I learned about the market's power when I was traded to the Buffalo Bills for $100.
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I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
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It's a constant challenge trying to find balance between styling, designing and being a mom.
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As a competitor, I want to continue to keep turning the chapters and keep challenging myself.
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If you are not living this moment, you are not really living.
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Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.
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I am about safety for the people and the planet.
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Getting some distance allowed me to develop a hunger for India and to come back and explore it in a way I wouldn't have had I been living here. And that probably made me more political as well.
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I haven't had any formal training, but I guess dance comes naturally to us - people from the north. See how much we dance at weddings.
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Since we travel a lot as a team, I spend a lot of time on a plane where I like to play 'Football Manager.' I have been a soccer fan since I was 5 years old, so to be able to manage soccer teams is a lot of fun.
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In the moment when you're doing a show, you're thinking of that moment, but you don't think of, 'Here's down the line how people will be relating to the characters.' There's something very universal about 'Sex and the City' that people are still tapping into, where every generation seems to be discovering for itself.
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I worked in TV for a short time and couldn't stand the fact that we'd always be filming someone talking, just giving information.
