Yancy Butler Quotes
My grandfather was a cop in Long Island. I often try to draw on things that I've heard about him.
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I told my agents that I love Holly Hunter and Frances McDormand and all of these women that are good at doing comedies as well as dramas.
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In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
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When you were a kid, a day was a long time and a year was a long time.
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My job is to train hard, go fight, and do my best.
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In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught by the Communists in Shanghai. And he was there for about a year until he was finally able to get out.
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First of all, I'm not the kind of guy that likes to rehash the show and so forth and so on.
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Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to live in the country and come to London when you can't take it any more is different.
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I think people turn to poetry more often than they think they do, or encounter it in more ways than they think that they do. I think we forget the places that we encounter it, say, in songs or in other little bits and pieces of things that we may have remembered from childhood.
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I went to this one in Ohio, and then I became a counselor there, and it was just the most fun thing. I was so depressed when I came home from camp.
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What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast.
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Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
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Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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When mom and dad were at the height of their careers, and things were super-crazy, and they couldn't leave their houses, there wasn't social media. It was all about autographs. Now, everyone's the press. I feel fame is perforated: it can be glorious, but it can completely destroy a human, too.
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One thing that founders always underestimate is how hard it is to recruit.
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Even great actors shine brighter in the right atmosphere.
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When a crowd rushes into your house without declaring its intention, it is, by definition, an invasion.
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When you don't get what you want, it just makes you accept real life.
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It's hard to live up to The Beatles. When Wings toured, they got slated. Even Dad found it hard living up to The Beatles. I started out playing under an alias because I wanted to start quietly.
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Her washing ended with the day, Yet lived she at its close,And passed the long, long night away In darning ragged hose.But when the sun in all its state Illumed the Eastern skies,She passed about the kitchen grate And went to making pies.
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I was a nursery school teacher, and I worked with youth groups. I loved that job. It was exhausting, but you got a lot back - all their purity and insight and innocence is so on the surface, and they're so unrepressed; they'd really scream at you and then give you a massive kiss.
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I believe people leave a theater bonding with characters. Story is the vessel that carries character. Comedy is a very important component of expressing character.
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I love Australia, and I especially love those rugby players.
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My grandfather was a cop in Long Island. I often try to draw on things that I've heard about him.
