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.
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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.
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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.
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I'm not an architectural composer.
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We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
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I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.
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I always approach every role through a lens of comedy.
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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.
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Politics is a people business. I like people.
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Not all children have the anchor of a strong family.
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I'm an actor, and I'm supposed to reflect real people.
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The Indian youth needs to be empowered, and it can be done through good education and vocational training.
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Interesting things always come from being really exhausted and really sick.
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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.
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Country music is all about telling stories, and we're just telling a little different one.
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My ancestors are Rajputs from Jaipur, a lineage of the royal family.
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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.
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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.
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True economy means the wisest expenditure of what we have, everything considered, looking at it from the broadest standpoint. It is not a good thing to save a nickel at the expenditure of twenty-five cents' worth of time.
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I'm okay I'm okay now. But you really need to listen to me 'cause i'm telling you the truth I mean this i'm okay. Trust me... I'm not okay... Well okay i'm not okay. I'm not o-f cking-kay
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Being a Christian means accepting Christ as your savior, your God. That's why you are called a 'Christian.' If you remove Christ, there's only 'ian' and that means 'I am nothing.'
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It's unlikely. It's too 'inside.' There would be about 100 people who would be thrilled, but we have to think of the bigger picture.
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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.
