William Mapother Quotes
I worked in script development, many years ago, and read a lot of scripts. Between that and the scripts I've read as an actor, and I'm a writer as well, I think I have a pretty good sense about whether the bones of a story are there and whether the structure is intact.
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I don't think I have a signature.
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Other families who are poor do what they can to get out of it. My mother did not. She did not utilise her resources. She had a degree. There was something she could have done, but she actively, purposely refused that so we could have this absolutely authentic experience of the worst of capitalism: 'See? Look how bad capitalism is.'
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When I ran in Texas, I told the people of Texas, 'if you elect me, I will lead the fight against amnesty.'
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends.
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If you don't find time to meditate and get all that negative out, and if you don't have the right people being positive around you, this is a very scary job to have if you don't learn how to control your fear.
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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Most of the time, economic data is fairly benign. I don't wish to imply it is meaningless, but it is not a driver of stock markets. Indeed, the correlation between economic noise and how equity markets perform has been wildly overemphasized.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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I liked the people at Brown, while I really disliked most of the fellow students I had met at Northwestern.
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I love doing serious movies for adults.
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The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.
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I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
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That's why I think the 'Scarpetta' series has worked so well because people like spending time with this character.
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If someone says you're a reporter and doesn't want you to anchor then you wonder why you worked so hard at it.
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The current distribution model for movies, in the U.S. particularly, but also around the world, is pretty antiquated relative to the on-demand generation that we're trying to serve.
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For a woman, the typical danger emanating from the unconscious comes from above, from the 'spiritual' sphere personified by the animus, whereas for a man it comes from the chthonic realm of the 'world and woman,' i.e., the anima projected on to the world.
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The truth is that fear cannot coexist with love. Therefore, we must learn how to dissolve all boundaries with love by taking responsibility for our own energy. In doing so, we'll raise the energy around us.
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People tell me their own stories about how they have come through great difficulty.
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If you've been fat, you will always feel and see the world as a fat person; you know how difficult it is... It's the same coming from a working-class background... it never leaves you.
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I see a big difference between the Republican candidate and the Democratic candidate.
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I think right now television is the best that it’s ever been, and I think that it’s the worst that film has ever been.
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I worked in script development, many years ago, and read a lot of scripts. Between that and the scripts I've read as an actor, and I'm a writer as well, I think I have a pretty good sense about whether the bones of a story are there and whether the structure is intact.
