Asif Kapadia Quotes

The Tour de France would make a great movie. Drugs, corruption, political chicanery, guys risking their lives - everything you need for a great sports drama.

Asif Kapadia

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• I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Diet
  • Constantly
  • Strict

• For me, being an actress, my responsibility is not to pay attention to all the noise around me and to pay attention to the script and the director and protect the character and try to tell her story the best I can.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Responsibility
  • Best
  • Story

• Kids are taking music for free all the time. They have Spotify, Pandora... The record companies aren't making the kind of music that they used to make. Artists make their money on tours, not from album sales.

  

  Malcolm D. Lee
  • Time
  • Music
  • Money

• Beautiful updos with natural hair are great!

  

  Zendaya
  • Great
  • Beautiful
  • Hair

• Most of my fans, if you were to look on their iPods, you'd see every possible genre of music represented in some capacity.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Music
  • Look
  • Fans

• Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.

  

  Gautam Adani
  • You
  • Government
  • Mean

• I am no historian, but Hungary is a country which has never known democracy - and by that, I mean not a democratic political system, but an organic process which has mobilised the entire country's society. In the case of Hungary, this development was blocked by the growth of the Ottoman empire in the 16th century.

  

  Imre Kertesz
  • Country
  • Society
  • Political

• We need to take music out of the ivory tower - both for musicians and for the public. Otherwise, classical music will not survive the 21st century.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Need
  • Musicians

• It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.

  

  Halldor Laxness
  • Simple
  • Always
  • Matter

• The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Science
  • Reason
  • Authority

• No hero is mortal till he dies.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Hero
  • Dies
  • Till

• Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Deep
  • Very
  • New Years

• I feel crazy that me sticking with my dreams actually worked. It's wild and incredible.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Crazy
  • Feel
  • Dreams

• It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Life
  • Live
  • Home

• Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.

  

  Nancy Astor
  • May
  • Lonely
  • Often

• The live setting is always better for me. I usually thrive at live. I feel like having a band behind me and being able to interact with the crowd helps boost my energy up.

  

  Naima Adedapo
  • Up
  • Live
  • Energy

• Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • May
  • Christmas
  • Birds

• My idea about football is to play well, but even if you can't always play well, one thing I want is your character, your spirit. That is all I can ask of you.

  

  Claudio Ranieri
  • Character
  • Football

• I think there's true drama in the formation of everything that we know and are standing on the shoulders of.

  

  Kevin Costner
  • True
  • Drama

• The best part about poker is there's no down side.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • Best
  • Down
  • Poker

• I've always been interested in this idea of looking at these monster stories and trying to really understand the mechanics underneath. That's very much true of this movie I made, 'All Good Things,' as well as 'Catfish,' which I produced.

  Andrew Jarecki
  • Good
  • Trying
  • True

• Building companies involves creating great wealth. If that means I am an oligarch, OK, it's fine. But if being an oligarch is about buying football clubs, it is not for me.

  

  Alexei Mordashov
  • Great
  • Football

• The Tour de France would make a great movie. Drugs, corruption, political chicanery, guys risking their lives - everything you need for a great sports drama.

  

  Asif Kapadia
  • Great
  • Movie
  • Political