Asif Kapadia Quotes
My films often have a spiritual dimension which comes from my Muslim background, and I'm happy to tackle that in cinema.
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Even a cock crows over his own dunghill.
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I thought if I put my book up on the Internet as a file that you could download, and I told people about it, maybe some people would download it and read it, and maybe I could get some response.
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I hope this series is good work, but it is in the half-hour medium, which is limited to a kind of mediocrity that sponsors are just dying to have right now, and the public, for some reason, is unconsciously demanding.
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What makes me happy is having a really nice day out with my mum, or getting better at something I've been working hard at.
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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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I applaud anyone who wants to take on the load that comes with being President of the United States. You really have to love your country to place yourself in that position.
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Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.
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In politics people build whole reputations off of getting one thing right.
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To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
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To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.
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There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?
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I agree with cosmetic surgery for medical reasons - my mother had breast cancer and I think it's very sad when somebody has no choice in what happens to their body.
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Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
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It's important to have masculine energy around your child.
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People know that I am a very good author. But they would rather read what I have to say about the next election.
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Talent survives and remains while beauty is diluted.
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Despite my excellent mood, I don't have any sympathy for Romney. If he'd been a good candidate he wouldn't have had a different campaign for every month on the calendar.
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I'm a historian in my own mind.
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I'm scared of him," said Piggy, "and that's why I know him. If you're scared of someone you hate him but you can't stop thinking about him. You kid yourself he's all right really, an' then when you see him again; it's like asthma an' you can't breathe.
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Man was born to live with his fellow human beings. Separate him, isolate him, his character will go bad, a thousand ridiculous affects will invade his heart, extravagant thoughts will germinate in his brain, like thorns in an uncultivated land.
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'Young men,' said Cæsar, 'hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.'
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I grew up watching and learning from the ultimate partnership, and that is of my father and late uncle.
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My films often have a spiritual dimension which comes from my Muslim background, and I'm happy to tackle that in cinema.
