William Mapother Quotes
One of the advantages of shooting digitally was that we had a lot of time. When you shoot, even if you do a good performance, it may get lost in the editing room. It's just one more way that a potentially good film might go astray.
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I find the stuff that is exciting to me are the films coming out of Taiwan and Iran and France. So I have the feeling I'm not making the films that American distributors want to make.
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That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.
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I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.
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I view my role now as providing more of a macro-level skepticism, rather than saying this poll is good or this poll is evil.
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I like to have fun, just stay relaxed.
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I always carry lip balm and lipstick. Lipstick is a very important beauty product because I find that lips are the most beautiful feature of anyone's face.
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I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.
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Someone once told me I looked good in red, so I bought every piece of clothing in red and bright-red lipstick. I had huge hair, as big as I could tease it and spray it.
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No, you will never see me on 'Dancing With the Stars.' Sorry.
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I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.
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Religion is induced insanity.
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Never thought acting was something you could make a living at. It wasn't until I was in college, and got a lead in a play, that I began to realize I might just be able to blunder into this profession.
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Dance should mean something to you.
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I think whenever you see what may be the seeds of a third party, you need to be very skeptical because there's not a very good track record for third parties.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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I think there are certain business matters which we must now conduct differently than we used to.
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If anyone comes to me, I want to lead them to Him.
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Fame is a lot of fun, but it's not interesting. I loved being noticed and praised, even the banquets. But they didn't have anything that I wanted. After about six months, I found it boring.
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It is easy to turn our religious life into a cathedral for beautiful memories, but there are feet to be washed . . .
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To be aware of a single shortcoming within oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in somebody else.
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Before my book, the most common assessment of Eleanor Marx is "Yes, she's great but basically she's in the shadow of her father." Absolute bollocks. She fought him, she resisted, and she was not a kind of trocadateur of his ideas.
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Feminism is rooted in racial rights and gender rights, and all of those things intersect, and to say that that's not something you can stand behind - it confuses me. I think it's a really great word.
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Days and moments quickly flying, Blend the living with the dead; Soon will you and I be lying Each within our narrow bed.
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One of the advantages of shooting digitally was that we had a lot of time. When you shoot, even if you do a good performance, it may get lost in the editing room. It's just one more way that a potentially good film might go astray.
