Asif Kapadia Quotes

I don't really rely on watching video monitors. They put you at a certain distance from your actors, and it makes me feel less a part of what's really happening in the scene.

Asif Kapadia

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My understanding of racial discrimination as a child was highly distorted because the most prominent man in Archery was an African-American bishop. When he came home from up north, where he was in charge of A.M.E. churches in five states, it was front-page news. He was the most successful man in my life.

Jimmy Carter

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For me, ancestry is just one thing that connects us to people, and feeling connected to other people is generally a good thing, as long as one kind of connection does not have primacy over all the others. Heredity, race and nationhood are not the best criteria by which to judge our fellow humans.

Jeremy Hardy

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My life gets better every year.

Andrew Zimmern

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Young people looking for adventure fiction now generally turn to fantasy, but for those of a certain age, the spy thriller has long been the escape reading of choice.

Michael Dirda

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You don't want to be starting a film not knowing what you want to do.

Russell Crowe

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I think, for a shy person - and I was very shy until my mid-20s - having been to an all-girls' school is not brilliant on the boyfriend front later. Because when I went to university, it was definitely like meeting a new species of people. Suddenly, at age 19, I was thinking: 'Can you speak to these people?' I was very, very nervous.

Miranda Hart

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My thoughts, my feelings, my spirit, they are all in Spanish.

Juan Gabriel

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Ian Fleming was my cousin, and he wanted me to play Dr. No, but by the time he got around to remembering to tell the producers, they'd already cast someone else. Spilt milk!

Christopher Lee

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People who stand in the way of where people are walking - I hate that.

Brendon Urie

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When popularity is your only goal, doing well in class is going to feature very low, if at all, on your priority list.

Arabella Weir

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I believe that every writer evolves with every successive novel. I view myself as work-in-progress.

Ashwin Sanghi

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The authentic Gullah dialect is actually very clipped, and so it would sound almost Jamaican and be very odd to an American audience's ears. It's not the typical Southern dialect that we're used to.

Audra McDonald

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