Yancy Butler Quotes
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I don't try to sugarcoat things, but I also think my books make positive statements about the people and values in small-town America.
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The Heat gave me an opportunity when nobody else wanted to.
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I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.
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There's nothing wrong with being anthropomorphic. That's how we understand the world.
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I'm a proud family man.
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To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.
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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
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Finishing games has been something I'm really proud of, seeing something through to the end.
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Americans are more likely to watch a film in their own language. For the rest of the world, it doesn't matter so much.
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We just here to do our job.
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I don't want to be an actor or nothing but if I have to, I'll act if it's the right thing.
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You can't be around Oprah and not have her influence you, and I don't mean that because she's doling out the free advice. I mean it because she is someone that leads with truth and follows her heart. She's a force.
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This is just strictly me wanting to make a record that is the real deal. It is all the stuff that I have learned and know that I remember. It's what I perceive as country music is about.
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People don't appreciate that when you're on the Internet, it's a 24/7 job. Even if you're not releasing episodes, your show is living and breathing on the Internet because there's a community around it. Ninety percent of the work is after the web series is shot, and you have to constantly maintain your community, because it's all you have.
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The best thing to do is just leave them alone. Alligators want to be away from you just as much as you want to be away from them.
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Russia is an amazing country to be an entrepreneur.
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You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.
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In the year 3000, everything will be instant.
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My home is attached to a study - in fact, my home is my study, and I have a little room to sleep in. I need to write looking onto the street or a landscape. Looking at reality from some distance gives me romantic visions.
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If I'd done a quarter of the things of which I'm accused, I'd be pickled in alcohol, I'd be a registered drug addict and would have sired half the children in the world's cricket-playing countries
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I have to do it myself. That's what a Queen does. She saves herself.
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But doing what I do, you will never get unanimity of people.
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That is what thrills me, personally. Small acts of kindness; thoughtful, large acts of kindness. I feel like we're in a bit of a precipice, and I think that any beautiful energy on the kindness continuum will just help us fall into a lovelier place.
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I pretty much make time for that weekly manicure.
