Asif Kapadia Quotes

I made three short films of my own which I wrote, produced, directed... you did everything in those days. My favourite one was something I shot on VHS... a little documentary.

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• You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • Up
  • Small
  • Know

• The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • May
  • Power
  • Society

• You can't hold back. You can't think of the subtleties of playing. You just have to get out and really bare it all, and hopefully you don't fall off the plank. And if you do, hey, pick yourself up, dust yourself down, and start all over again.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Up
  • Think
  • Fall

• I'm not an architectural composer.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Composer
  • Architectural

• I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Need

• I always approach every role through a lens of comedy.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Comedy
  • Always
  • Lens

• Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • World
  • Live
  • Children

• Politics is a people business. I like people.

  

  Laura Bush
  • People
  • Business
  • Politics

• Not all children have the anchor of a strong family.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Children
  • Family
  • Strong

• I'm an actor, and I'm supposed to reflect real people.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • People
  • Real
  • Reflect

• The Indian youth needs to be empowered, and it can be done through good education and vocational training.

  

  Pallam Raju
  • Good
  • Done
  • Education

• Interesting things always come from being really exhausted and really sick.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Interesting
  • Always
  • Sick

• There are kids out there that are into Iron Maiden and others who are strictly into industrial music, but they come for the same reason; they all like us and they different things out of the band's music.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Music
  • Different
  • Kids

• Country music is all about telling stories, and we're just telling a little different one.

  

  Taylor Dye
  • Music
  • Different
  • Country

• My ancestors are Rajputs from Jaipur, a lineage of the royal family.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Family
  • Ancestors
  • Royal

• China is one of those vast, continental conglomerates that... I mean, if they were to start a tourist trade in China, they'd just bus people in from another province, you know what I mean? They're very self-contained.

  

  Damon Albarn Gorillaz
  • People
  • Know
  • Start

• This industry isn't fair. It doesn't owe anybody a career. It's just about luck, determination, and showing up and being professional. The rest is out of your hands.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • Up
  • Career
  • Rest

• I think there's a part of my brain where food, language, and memory all intersect, and it's really powerful. I think I'm not alone in this.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Food
  • Alone
  • Powerful

• For 'Beasts,' I really wanted my character to be this sort of mushy, muscleless Muppet.

  

  Katherine Waterston
  • Character

• There is no passion in nature so demoniacally impatient, as that of him who, shuddering upon the edge of a precipice, thus meditates a Plunge.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe

• It is fun to be alive. It's a hell of a lot better than being dead.

  

  John Graham Mellor The 101ers
  • Fun
  • Dead
  • Alive

• Let no person think lightly of good, saying in his or her heart, "it will not benefit me." As by the falling of raindrops a jar of water is filled, so the wise person becomes full of good, even though he or she collects it little by little.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Heart
  • Raindrops
  • Collects

• Everybody is so terribly sensitive about the things they know best.

  

  Norton Juster
  • Knows
  • Sensitive

• I made three short films of my own which I wrote, produced, directed... you did everything in those days. My favourite one was something I shot on VHS... a little documentary.

  

  Asif Kapadia