William Mapother Quotes
If the question was did we want to delay the revelation?... Yeah, you want to delay it as long as possible because the audience knows that that moment is coming and you want to make them wait for it. They have to suffer a bit.
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I drove long distances like the 24 hours of Le Mans for years. But even this racing is now over. I retired.
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At school, I'd refuse to take part in biology lessons when animals were being dissected. One time, the teacher announced that we would be gassing worms. So I ran around the room, gathered up all the worms and set them free in the fields. I just loved animals and couldn't bear the thought of them suffering.
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When you are dining with a demon, you got to have a long spoon.
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That's what happens nowadays with people working on computers. They can so easily fix things with their mouse and take out all the, 'Oh, somebody coughed in the background; we need to take that out' - or somebody hit a bad note. Those are all the best moments.
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For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.
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That's something USA Hockey has been trying to do for a long time is prove that we can play with the Canadians and the Russians and the Swedes and Finns consistently on a tournament basis.
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There have been periods of my career that I haven't worked for a really long time, like seven or eight months.
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To deal with local pollution, China has put on the agenda the capping of coal, which has long been a sensitive issue.
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I guess I never had a better experience than working on The Long Riders, and at the same time, I never had a harder time than what I did making Southern Comfort.
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Now and then, I had moments of greatness, but I never knew how to duplicate it consistently.
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I think that God prepared me for Chris's death in some ways, because I've seen other people lose their spouses. I've known for a long time that life isn't fair.
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For as long as our people are held hostage by controllable socio-economic forces, we cannot afford to be indifferent to the ravages of poverty in all its dimensions and ramifications.
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Paint goes a long way in making old look like new.
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There are times when fixing things quickly is the only option: when you have to channel MacGyver, reach for the duct tape, and cobble together whatever solution works right now. If someone is choking on a morsel of food, you don't sit back, stroke your chin and take the Aristotelian long view. You quickly administer the Heimlich maneuvre.
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I have to tell you, TV is an incredibly difficult medium. The most challenging show to do is the hour long dramedy. It's a very tricky format.
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Honestly, with me, as long as I have a park to play basketball in, I'm pretty cool.
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This has been a trend for a long time; the days of lifetime employment are long since over.
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My connections to Broward are long, and they are deep, and I'm proud of them.
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When anybody laughs, he has no mind, no thought, no problem, no suffering.
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When I was growing up, Forest Park was full of integrated families. It was amazing. One my best friends was Vietnamese. Another one was half-Mexican, half-black. Another one was from Colombia. Another one was born in the U.S., but his mom was from Germany and spoke with a German accent. So we all had multiple identities.
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I'm a pretty bookish person.
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Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.
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Hardcover and paperback forever. Someone carve that into a tree.
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If the question was did we want to delay the revelation?... Yeah, you want to delay it as long as possible because the audience knows that that moment is coming and you want to make them wait for it. They have to suffer a bit.
