Asif Kapadia Quotes

I made several short films with very little dialogue. I'm still not a fan of talking heads. My stories are told with images as much as possible.

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• Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • People
  • Different
  • Think

• Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Life
  • Character
  • Life Is A

• A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Work
  • May
  • You

• I'm rebelling against being handed a career, like, 'You're the next this; you're the next that.' I'm not the next anything, I'm the first me. I can't be myself, I can't just be Idris Elba. But that's just the nature of the business.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Business
  • Nature
  • Career

• Israel is stronger than all those who curse it.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Stronger
  • Israel
  • Curse

• I came home after a year and although my profession was only hairdressing, I knew I could change it.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Home
  • Change
  • Year

• Physically, I've seen a change in my life. No, I haven't had a face lift or anything like that. I've grown. That's God's countenance.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Life
  • God
  • Change

• Well, my piano's really beautiful. I actually have two pianos. I have a Yamaha upright from the '60s that's blond, wood, and black, and I also have one from the '20s from Chicago - not a well-known brand or anything.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Beautiful
  • Black
  • Chicago

• My project was radiation damage of Si and Ge by energetic electrons, critical for the use of the recently developed semiconductor devices for applications in outer space.

  

  Walter Kohn
  • Space
  • Project
  • Outer Space

• Necessity is laid upon us. We must fight. There are no promises in the Lord Jesus Christ's epistles to the seven churches, except to those who 'overcome.' Where there is grace, there will be conflict. The believer is a soldier. There is no holiness without a warfare. Saved souls will always be found to have fought a fight.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Jesus
  • Fight
  • Grace

• We'd all like to believe that perhaps people could stop killing each other.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • People
  • Believe
  • Stop

• My mother always said don't marry for money, divorce for money.

  

  Wendy Liebman
  • Money
  • Mother
  • Said

• Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • People
  • Relationship
  • Yourself

• I always want objects in my home that have a connection to me or something I've loved. It's still stuff, but it's stuff that has meaning.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Connection
  • Loved
  • Meaning

• My popularity plunged three years ago and I didn't try to court publicity.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Years
  • Try
  • Three

• Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Men
  • Nature
  • Challenge

• For me, the real thing is make, serve and list in India. Which means we need manufacturing, we need services, and we need financial markets.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Financial
  • India
  • Markets

• Barometer, n. An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.

  

  Ambrose Bierce

• When I was younger, I'd go to the Museum of Television and Radio in New York and watch this beautiful clip of Billie Holiday playing with a bassist, a pianist and Gerry Mulligan, who was a friend of mine, on baritone sax. At one point, she looks over at Gerry, and they just smile. When those moments happen, it's just lovely.

  

  Patti Scialfa
  • She
  • Beautiful
  • Friend

• My father constantly reminded me that he named me after Angela Yvonne Davis, a scholar and activist who was well known for her work in tandem with the Black Panther Party. That felt like a purposeful, beckoning call to engage in strategic resistance and to fight for the oppressed.

  

  Angela Rye
  • Work
  • Father
  • Black

• Dogs who live in each other's company are calm and pragmatic, never showing the desperate need to make known their needs and feelings or to communicate their observations, as some hysterical dogs who know only the company of our species are likely to do.

  

  Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
  • Live
  • Calm

• Fuzzy thinking is, after all, just one step above not thinking at all. But to take the ideas of serious transformational thinkers and philosophers and throw the "new age" label at them is also abhorrent.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Thinking
  • Age
  • Serious

• I made several short films with very little dialogue. I'm still not a fan of talking heads. My stories are told with images as much as possible.

  

  Asif Kapadia