Yancy Butler Quotes
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I've lost fights before where I'm landing more punches and I'm moving away from the guy. So, the way that they score things at the end doesn't seem very consistent to me.
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You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses.
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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I'm more of a guy's girl. I like having a beer in a bar, and I don't bicker or sit down and do my nails.
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Being grown up and in a serious relationship, I've learned so much. I'm happier than I've every been.
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I'm working on my new album right now. Hopefully to get that out at the top of 2005, January 2005.
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In December 2004, I travelled on the road from Uzbekistan across the Oxus River on which the first Soviet convoys had rolled into Afghanistan 25 years before.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.
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One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have done something we regret – how we manage to remove that from our conscience, or whether that's even possible, interested me.
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The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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There are staples to my show. I have to be conscious about switching things up because I know people who saw me last year will say, 'He did that last time.' But if certain things work, they work.
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I carry around, like, a little journal with me and just write all the time. Not necessarily, like, actually sitting down and writing lyrics - just freeform writing, whatever's going on in my mind. I write a lot on airplanes, actually, because it's completely isolating.
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I can't imagine that I would have been cast in the role, without Jamie Lee giving me a thumbs up.
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According to them, the poet is confined to the provinces with his mouth broken on his own syllabic trapeze.
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Leading from behind doesn't work.
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I don't choose to make movies as small as the movies I've made. The combined budget of my two films is far under $5 million, but it's just by necessity that it ends up being that way.
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A dream acting role would be Matt Damon in the Bourne series. I would love to do something like that!
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I love old movies. The '40s theatre pace is fantastic.
