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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My characters hope for better lives.
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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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The E.U. has moved to combat global terrorism by instituting common European arrest and evidence warrants and creating a joint situation center to pool and analyze intelligence.
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A lot of time, you play well and you do good work, but you are not on a good team, so it really doesn't mean anything.
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From 1973 to 1982 I ate the exact same lunch everyday . Turkey chili in a bowl made out of bread . Bread bowl George. First you eat the chili then you eat the bowl . There's nothing more satisfying than looking down after lunch and seeing nothing but a table.
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People are embracing the thing that made them different growing up instead of letting that thing elicit shame.
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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.
