Asif Kapadia Quotes
You don't have to be someone who likes walking a tightrope across the Twin Towers to watch 'Man On Wire.'
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When I was going through puberty, I had all these feelings of being unstable through those years, and being uncontrollably drawn to things of beauty and things that are bad.
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As much as possible, location-specific information should not be collected in the first place, or not in personally identifiable form.
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Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.
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At school, I was a tomboy, and it would be me and all my guy friends.
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It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
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No access to me, nor my staff, will ever affect what we do to protect consumers of the state of Florida.
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Newspapers are busily experimenting with different models. Traditionally, and I suspect in hindsight very mistakenly, online news was free. And once given free access readers felt it was their entitlement.
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The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.
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I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
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I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening.
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I become a first-time novelist and a senior citizen on the same day.
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Sometimes I post something unwittingly that connects with women. But I never think, 'OK, let's take a shirtless picture for the girls.'
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For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.
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We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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There are several very good websites which describe the details of preparedness planning for citizens.
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I think Isambard Kingdom Brunel would be a good chap to have supper with. Anyone who builds a railway and then builds a steamship when he gets to Bristol and can't go any further must be a good chap.
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I've done movies for certain reasons; I did 'Anaconda' because the black man lives. Simple. The black man isn't dead in the first three pages, like Jurassic Park. It's like, 'The black man kills the snake with a Latino girl? Damn! I got to do this.'
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Flannery O'Connor was a revelation for me. When I read her, I was very young, and I didn't understand what she was doing. I didn't see any of the Catholicism or any of the social stuff.
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He seemed to be witnessing with his own eyes the supreme bankruptcy of humanity. Wealth had spoken the truth that night on the mountain.
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I'm good at professional wrestling, and I always will be good, but what's always been different about me is that I can't completely focus on professional wrestling.
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When I cook a meal, I like to serve things one by one and keep them separate. I get that from my father - he's such a purist. Some people even put their desserts on the main plate. It's just wrong.
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I don't consider myself to be particularly gifted in the way that other filmmakers are gifted.
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Life can be a bore if you're constantly walking sidewalks instead of a tightrope once in a while.
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You don't have to be someone who likes walking a tightrope across the Twin Towers to watch 'Man On Wire.'
