William Mapother Quotes
I can be a bit of a science geek. I tend more towards reading about brain science, neuroscience.
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I'm kind of a perfectionist, and it gets in the way with my putting sometimes. Golf is a messed-up game. When you feel you've figured it out is when you're going to struggle.
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Being a public servant, this is a serious job, not like a boxer, you're entertaining people.
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I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler.
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I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.
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The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.
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'Trolls' was a blank slate - there was no world, no mythology. We talked a lot about the Grinch and we liked how they showed his heart growing, but how do you show a photographable device like that for the Bergens? We ended up using color for a lot of that: desaturating and then pulling the saturation up.
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Though the male can be noble in reason and infinite in faculties, he is also easily amused by shiny toys, especially ones that do dumb things on his desk.
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I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.
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If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.
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People I respect complimenting me on my work in fashion is more exciting to me than anything I ever achieved as a Spice Girl. I am now competing in an arena where I can hold my head high. I feel quite confident in what I'm doing now, much more than the singing. I was never going to give Mariah Carey any competition.
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War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.
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I worked from 12 to 17, six years in a bakery. I was a pastry cook.
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Give the peasants neither life nor death.
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I'm getting better, happier, and nicer as I grow older, so I would be terrific in a couple of hundred years time.
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Every education law should be based around the question, 'Is this good for children?' And it's not.
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I am not overlooking any mail. I'm looking at all of it. I even wrote back to the Viagra people.
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The twentieth century had produced a literature in Ireland that kept a tense distance from the sources of faith - and for good reason. Irish writing had suffered a terrible censorship in the twentieth century.
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All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.
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The social dimension of the art world is fascinating to me, but I also want to entertain the reader, so I will let a character say something funny.
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In valley drift we meet commonly with the bones of quadrupeds which graze on plains bordering rivers.
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The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.
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I like to build a character, trying to stretch my imagination as far to the walls of my brain as I can to come up with something that feels truthful and feels real - as close to the skin as I can get it.
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I played a trial game for Reading against Brentford. Then the coach told me that they couldn't afford to take me on. So I went to see Brentford. I couldn't believe it when they signed me - they were in the league above Reading.
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I can be a bit of a science geek. I tend more towards reading about brain science, neuroscience.
