Yancy Butler Quotes
I don't know that I'd necessarily want to see into the future. I don't want to know what's happening next.
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If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.
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Five guys on the court working together can achieve more than five talented individuals who come and go as individuals.
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I wish it were not a sin to have liked it so.
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I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the '40s on.
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One of my favorite things about what I do for a living is that there is no certainty that, at any hour of any day, I could get a phone call that could change everything. Good or bad. I never know.
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I'm not the most technical producer, so the weird mixes and blown-out sound happen naturally.
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If I can save 25 billion dollars in terms of reduction of import, I will be adding one percent to the GDP. By conserving the oil energy by the people, the GDP will become 5.5 percent, and this will change the economy of the country.
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Some films shouldn't be remade.
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We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
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The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.
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Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.
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The single worst moment of my life... was the moment I was born.
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Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.
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You can exercise anytime, anywhere. It doesn't have to be the gym.
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When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.
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I'm a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I'm a spiritual person as well.
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If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.
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America is huge.
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It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.
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When I was old enough to walk home alone from school, I loved seeing our house from a distance. It sat on the corner of South Muirfield Road and West 4th Street and had this proud, majestic look. But I rarely went through the front door. The back was more dramatic.
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The cult of celebrity in the '60s and '70s was really more reserved for movie stars or high socialites. Paparazzi didn't care about Janis Joplin.
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With all of the qualities of the scene-setting, the dialogue, the place and time and the time and place in which your characters move. And I want to move with the characters, move with them and describe the world in which they are living.
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I don't know that I'd necessarily want to see into the future. I don't want to know what's happening next.
