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 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.
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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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I think John le Carre is, at 77, the greatest living writer alive. He is a master craftsman.
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The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
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I would not be bothered if we lost every game as long as we won the league.
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All dread those things they don't understand.
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Applicants must also have extensive knowledge of Unix, although they should have sufficiently good programming taste to not consider this an achievement.
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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.