William Mapother Quotes

One of the great things about film is that, typically anything that's introduced in the first five minutes, the audiences will by into.

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• A lot of women find that their workwear acts as armour.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Women
  • Find
  • Lot

• When you're doing a car chase movie, you're sitting in car waiting for places or grips or stuff for quite a while.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Movie
  • Car
  • Waiting

• Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Truth
  • Passion
  • Laugh

• In a play, the director is God, and I'm a great arguer. Rather boringly so, I think, about trying different things.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Great
  • God
  • Different

• My family is a praying family, a Christian family.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Family
  • Christian
  • Praying

• I've only gotten directly offered two or three movies, ever. I don't have the luxury of being able to say no a lot, and I don't really have the luxury of just getting to pick and choose certain things. If I did, I probably would choose even more different roles than I've played.

  

  Madeline Zima
  • Different
  • Movies
  • Choose

• I'm not going to just say nice things about everybody unless I mean it.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Nice
  • Mean
  • Going

• Hamas has effectively kidnapped Gaza. Instead of turning it into the Singapore of the Middle East that was promised, they have turned it into a fortress of terror.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Middle East
  • Singapore

• A Pike, in the California dialect, is a native of Missouri, Arkansas, Northern Texas, or Southern Illinois. The first emigrants that came over the plains were from Pike County, Missouri; but as the phrase, 'a Pike County man,' was altogether too long for this short life of ours, it was soon abbreviated into 'a Pike.'

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Life
  • Long
  • Man

• By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and denominations of Christians are placed upon the same equal footing, and are equally entitled to protection in their religious liberty.

  

  Samuel Chase
  • Government
  • Christian
  • Religious

• Look at Jessica Simpson. She's famous for being dumb. I guess it started with Marylyn Monroe, and she actually wasn't that dumb, but that's how she was perceived - and that's what got popular.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • She
  • Famous
  • Popular

• It is a kind of ego booster, the way Egypt's winning the 1973 war, in the first stages, was an uplift. But I did not find when I spoke to people that the war in Iraq was seen as the major issue in American-Arab relations.

  

  Walter Russell Mead
  • People
  • American
  • War

• Social paralysis is strong and stands firmly in the way of change on the ground level. As allies, we have to prepare ourselves to step into the fire when necessary, even - and especially - when said fire is merely a still-lit cigarette tossed carelessly onto the street.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Strong
  • Change
  • Fire

• As artists, we're always going to like the songs we just now made over the songs we made a year ago.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Always
  • Year
  • Now

• Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.

  

  Harold Kushner
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Running

• No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Inspired
  • Write
  • Terrified

• Whatever the right hand findeth to do, the left hand carries a watch on its wrist to show how long it takes to do it.

  

  Ralph W. Sockman
  • Long
  • Hand
  • Watch

• There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Feel
  • Right
  • Blame

• In writing lyrics - well, for me, anyway - it's about getting into character, you know? 'Who is writing this?' In the case of the original 'Thick As A Brick,' supposedly a precocious, very young child who's fantasizing about his future and the context of all the confusing elements to which school boys are subjected at that time.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Time
  • Writing
  • School

• There are things you fantasize about doing and saying, and then ultimately don't because it's illegal.

  

  Mila Kunis
  • Things
  • Illegal
  • Fantasize

• One day, you will wake up and there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wanted. DO IT NOW.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • Things
  • Wake Up
  • Do Now

• I always grew up with, 'Question authority.'

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Up
  • Question
  • Always

• We might say that both the artist and theneurotic bite off more than they can chew, but the artist spews it back out again and chews it over in an objectified way, as an ex­ternal, active, work project.

  

  Ernest Becker
  • Artist
  • Projects
  • Active

• One of the great things about film is that, typically anything that's introduced in the first five minutes, the audiences will by into.

  

  William Mapother
  • Film
  • Things
  • Audience