Yancy Butler Quotes
I had to skydive for the movie and I was terrified. Like everybody, I thought it was going to be one of those experiences that changes your life. It didn't.
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I feel like I've grown up a bit. I'm a bit more confident, and I've been reading more, and I've had a little more time to myself. I went on this writing trip to gather my thoughts about where and who I am in this world, and why we're all here.
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.
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They don't have a lot of appointment viewing. What television depends on, one thing 'Larry King Live' was - whether you liked it, didn't like it - it was appointment viewing.
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The director had come to Madrid to court me.
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People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans.
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One rose says more than the dozen.
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I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18,' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president.
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No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.
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Most Americans probably have no idea how hostile anti-abortion sidewalk counseling outside clinics can be. There's a reason pro-choicers volunteer to escort patients as they make their way past angry crowds to the clinic door.
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Sometimes I wake up, I feel like, I'm like 80-years-old.
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With Nine Inch Nails, it's all Trent Reznor. So when we get a new record from Nine Inch Nails, it depends on what side of the bed Trent's waking up on and what he's been eating lately and what he's been into. Because he's preparing the whole meal.
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I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know.
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Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.
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Kuhn was the intellectual of whom many scientists said he's 'telling it as is it is' insofar as talking about a process of 'tinkering' in terms of theory and experiment followed by radical changes. But often, what Kuhn had in mind were some very spectacular incidents in the history of the sciences that changed our way of looking at the world.
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Library campaigners are not prepared to stand by and watch something they cherish be dismantled brick by brick.
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Placebo is music for outsiders, by outsiders and our gigs are like conventions of outcasts, which is cool.
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People are used to music that justifies street culture but something that's not touched on is why these kids act the way they act, live the way they live.
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If you want to fight against a declining trend, you've got to have a much bigger bazooka.
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I think we were born 6 feet tall and then started to grow from there. My dad's not particularly tall - only 5 feet, 11 inches - but his mother was almost 6 feet and straight as a ramrod: a German woman who used to scare the hell out of me.
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Cooking is the best way to unwind at the end of a long writing day. There's something mindless and hands-on about cooking, which makes it feel like the very opposite of writing, which is heady but inactive.
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I had to skydive for the movie and I was terrified. Like everybody, I thought it was going to be one of those experiences that changes your life. It didn't.
