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.
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Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
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A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to.
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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.
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Israel is stronger than all those who curse it.
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I came home after a year and although my profession was only hairdressing, I knew I could change it.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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We'd all like to believe that perhaps people could stop killing each other.
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My mother always said don't marry for money, divorce for money.
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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.
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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.
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My popularity plunged three years ago and I didn't try to court publicity.
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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.
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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.
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Barometer, n. An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.
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Boone gulped and swallowed. He spoke to The Hat. 'You said the Highway to Eternity?' That is not what I said. I said the Highway of Eternity.'Small difference,' Boone told him. Not so small as you might think.
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In the laboratory the gambits all test unfavorably, but the old rule wears well, that all gambits are sound over the board.
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This is the magic secret of dog training - lose control over yourself and you at once lose control of the dog. Your strongest and most irresistible weapon is iron patience.
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It is all, as usual, paradox. I have to use what intellect I have in order to write books, but I write the kind of books I do in order that I may try to set down glimpses of things that are on the other side of the intellect. We do not go around and discard the intellect, but we must go through and beyond it.
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Live-action is more fun for me, because you're acting with people. When you do voice-acting, many times you're not even in the room with the person that you're acting with.
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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.
