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

• My characters hope for better lives.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Hope
  • Better
  • Characters

• 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 really like the idea of modesty. By the time I got into music, I was already wearing the scarf all the time, and it's really personal to me, my Muslim beliefs, so I decided to keep it and find a way to work around it. I don't see it as a restriction or limitation - I can still be me and get into music and be an entertainer.

  

  Yuna
  • Time
  • Work
  • Music

• 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

• See?" he said, with an unholy amount of glee. "I hardly broke any laws at all. I should drive more often." "No. Trust me, you shouldn't," Eve said. "Think of all the little old people and the children.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • People
  • Children
  • Trust

• Risk is good. Not properly managing your risk is a dangerous leap.

  

  Evel Knievel
  • Risk
  • Leap
  • Managing

• Tell her we don’t bite.” “I don’t lie to my friends.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Friends

• When I run, I think about everything: physics, family problems, plans for the weekend. I haven't made any big discoveries on a run, but it does give me time to think through problems. Some solutions are obvious, but they are only obvious when you are relaxed enough to find them.

  

  Wolfgang Ketterle
  • Thinking
  • Running
  • Problem

• Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be born, but no more.

  

  Pierre Beaumarchais
  • Great
  • Believe

• 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