Yancy Butler Quotes
My father used to sing to me in my mother's womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats.
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There's a perception out there that the U.K. has become unfriendly to immigrants. Even if that isn't true, the very fact that that is the perception will make people not even want to come.
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And although I've been very fortunate in the film work that's come my way, I need to get back to the stage. If I'm away for a maximum of two years, I feel something's wrong.
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Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have.
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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Weddings are really good for making you feel terrible about yourself if you're not where you want to be in life.
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Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.
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You know, the Brits had a way of - running an empire. And I don't think America is comfortable with an empire.
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A lot of people may know my face and know that I'm a good player on the football field, but they probably don't really know me as a person.
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I've always used black girls on the runway, because I think they're beautiful. I don't need people to tell me, 'You need to use black girls.' I did for 20 years; it's not a new thing for me.
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It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.
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Pretty is so boring now. There are so many different definitions of 'pretty.' It's so much broader than before. The old pretty is boring - nobody cares anymore.
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I always like to have a buffer between me and journalism in general. Not just a reporter, but journalism.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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Linda Thorson was a great actress with a great body, but she arrived just as 'The Avengers' was losing its appeal.
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Working with Jack Albertson was one of my great joys.
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I always consider Shakespeare like a huge room. I mean, you open the door, and you can go anywhere.
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The International Space Station is a phenomenal laboratory, an unparalleled test bed for new invention and discovery. Yet I often thought, while silently gazing out the window at Earth, that the actual legacy of humanity's attempts to step into space will be a better understanding of our current planet and how to take care of it.
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We think of the 1950s as an oppressive time in the culture, and indeed it was, but it was also in many ways a more secular moment, and one in which great scientific achievements flourished. I don't want to get too gauzy about this, but there was much more respect for science as a necessary part of society.
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Left to my own devices, I would go to bed at 2:30 or 3, but I can't do that if I'm getting up at 6:50!
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I can tell you that the Iowa way - the Iowa way is to find out that there is a problem and acknowledge it and address it head-on.
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I think, basically, the music industry is scattered and in a mess. I think you've got lots of people that are so-called 'experts' that have no idea where it's headed.
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My father used to sing to me in my mother's womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats.
