William Mapother Quotes

I remember when I was working on Mission: Impossible 2, John Woo said, "In Hong Kong, there's not much money and a lot of time. In Hollywood, a lot of money, not much time." Personally I'd prefer not much money, a lot of time.

William Mapother

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• Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Friends
  • Remember
  • Friendship

• Remember that life's big changes rarely give advance warning.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Life
  • Remember
  • Change

• Scientists have proven that it's impossible to long-jump 30 feet, but I don't listen to that kind of talk. Thoughts like that have a way of sinking into your feet.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Long
  • Thoughts
  • Impossible

• When people read a novel 600 pages long, six months pass, and all they will remember are five pages. They don't remember the text - instead, they remember the sensations the text gives them.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • People
  • Long
  • Remember

• Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Men
  • Day
  • Impossible

• I remember I got an ALMA award for an actor being on three shows simultaneously.

  

  Ian Gomez
  • Remember
  • Three
  • Award

• I think the Mama people remember is from 'Mama's Family.' She really turned into a pretty cool character. The sketches from the 'Burnett' show, if people are old enough to remember, were written by writers who all hated their mothers.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • People
  • Family
  • She

• Most movies are lucky to have one moment, one shot that you look at and you always remember that moment and that scene.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Remember
  • Movies
  • Moment

• It's so easy to get used to playing a role. Then all of the sudden when you're tossed out of it, it's almost like you have to remember how to act again!

  

  A. J. Cook
  • Remember
  • Easy
  • Act

• It's absolutely impossible, but it has possibilities.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Impossible
  • Possibilities

• Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Live
  • Remember
  • Fish

• The 8 P.M. hour in the cable news world is currently driven by the indomitable Bill O'Reilly, Nancy Grace, and Keith Olbermann. Shedding my own journalistic skin to try to inhabit the kind of persona that might coexist in that lineup is just impossible for me.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • World
  • Impossible
  • Grace

• I've had a love affair with the desert ever since I can remember. No matter what I wrote - contemporary romance, spy thriller, high fantasy - it was going to have a desert in it.

  

  Rae Carson
  • Remember
  • Desert
  • Fantasy

• Remember that failure is an event, not a person.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Remember
  • Person
  • Failure

• We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Men
  • Remember
  • Giving

• For everyone, 'Star Wars' has been a part of their lives in some capacity. I remember watching it very early on with my cousins and my brother, and we were all cuddled around the VHS player, which sounds very old-fashioned, but that was the way then.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Remember
  • Player
  • Star

• I can remember trying to coach, trying to figure out schemes, and it just wasn't coming to me.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Remember
  • Me
  • Coach

• I don't remember a drama on TV that had shown a couple could be married but still love each other very much, spend every day as if they were still on their honeymoon, be sensuous, and have fun together.

  

  Aaron Spelling
  • Fun
  • Couple
  • Drama

• My decorating and renovation skills are nil - indeed, I once used a shower curtain from Pottery Barn as 'window dressing.'

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Window
  • Skills
  • Once

• We've got people, our friends and neighbors, who are losing their jobs, factories being closed. We have to get America moving again.

  

  James Douglas
  • People
  • Friends
  • America

• The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were.

  

  David Brinkley

• Lazy people can't practice Ashtanga Yoga

  

  K. Pattabhi Jois
  • People
  • Practice
  • Yoga

• I remember when I was working on Mission: Impossible 2, John Woo said, "In Hong Kong, there's not much money and a lot of time. In Hollywood, a lot of money, not much time." Personally I'd prefer not much money, a lot of time.

  

  William Mapother
  • Remember
  • Impossible