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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I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.
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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 do not wish a foreign army to spill the blood of my people.
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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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There are definitely strictly independent movies. 'Gummo' is one. Another is one I made, 'Fresh,' a $3 million movie which Boaz Yakin directed.
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If you were an artist or novelist, or a poet or somebody like that, nobody would think it odd if you worked in your own home. In science there's none of this at all. I'm almost the only independent scientist in Britain. Everybody else works in large institutions, universities, or industrial labs. Why should one expect scientists to work that way?
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My plays have been strange from the beginning, and they never got unstrange.
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If they think you're a hero, they're wrong. After you die, you don't get to be Beowulf or Perseus or Rama any more. Whole different set of rules. Chess, not checkers. Go, not chess. You understand?
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I can be a bit of a science geek. I tend more towards reading about brain science, neuroscience.
