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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I am a proud Zionist. I can tell you about every blossom that grows in this land. I know the history and the Bible.
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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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I'm kind of proud of myself. I've been able to keep a certain grace about me, even in the times of disgrace and craziness.
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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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The hard work definitely paid off and hard work always does.
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The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.
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I was this kid who never sat down. Nobody liked me? Well, I'd make sure they'd like me. I was the class clown, always doing crazy stuff and causing riots.
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If I go to a movie and it's particularly violent, and people are leaving the theatre ready to vomit, we're sitting there with our popcorn just chuckling.
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It will be the people with the greatest love, not the most information, who will influence us to change.
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I love old movies. The '40s theatre pace is fantastic.
