Yancy Butler Quotes
Whether it goes to series or stands by itself, I'm proud of what we did with it, not only from the standpoint of what it could have been, but for itself.
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We are skinny; this is our work. There are lots of overweight people working in offices, but I'm not going to say, 'This girl is fat; she can't work in an office.'
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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I work all the time. I never leave home. I mean, I just stay honed in on what's ahead.
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I'm just there to do interviews and stuff, because we have about 40 media people there, so it's a very, very busy week. But that's the only time. I did marry, I think on one show, about 25 couples in Acapulco Bay once, but that was all just for kicks.
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Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you're passionate about something, then you're more willing to take risks.
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Why, a quarter of a century after the Cold War, do we still have 28,000 troops in Korea?
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I am at a stage where I want to be known as a versatile actor.
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My centre of who I thought I was was never very consciously about being beautiful or attractive - I think I'm one of those people who's actually grown into their looks.
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I'm privileged to have had some success, but I've never forgotten what it was like to queue for a half-crown gallery seat for 'Oliver!' which is why I ensure that there are £20 day tickets for 'Miss Saigon' and that the balconies in my theatres are as comfortable as I can possibly make them.
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Men are domineering in rural Haryana, and that shows in sport, too.
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It's very difficult switching over from one character to another.
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I don't want to be competing in a sport where I feel that I'm here not on my talent and my hard work but because of a piece of equipment.
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My first big role was when I was 17 and I got the part playing Maria in 'West Side Story' in my school production.
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I don't talk in ifs.
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Likings arise when one has no earthly reason for liking - the most wildly improbable marriages and uncommon friendship.
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If the blood humor is too strong and robust, calm it with balance and harmony.
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It's all about sound. It's that simple.
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We have the greatest hospitals, doctors, and medical technology in the world - we need to make them accessible to every American.
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Then people ask me if I'm worried about the effects of global warming on my kids. Well, obviously I love my kids and I want them to live to be a 100. So that's another 1.8 degrees. My kids’ kids? Three point six. I'll just tell them we moved to Phoenix.
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Our spiritual mission is not to ignore the darkness, but to bring light TO the darkness. Ignoring darkness does not dispel it; only the light does. That is the difference between denial and transcendence.
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The most important, overriding arc of my career has been that I would never be self-deprecating.
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Those who were closest to Yeltsin behaved as if they were running the government.
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I was 8 years old when I started listening to Lynyrd Skynyrd and Bad Company and Led Zeppelin.
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Whether it goes to series or stands by itself, I'm proud of what we did with it, not only from the standpoint of what it could have been, but for itself.
