Rick Yancey Quotes
My foray into young adult lit was by no means planned. I wrote the first 'Alfred Kropp' book as an adult novel, which everyone loved but no one would publish - until I changed my protagonist from a thirty-something P.I. into a 15-year-old kid. After that, it was off to the races, and I am so glad.
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It's like I understand images and some people understand poetry.
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You must respect people, and you must respect money. My father said to me: 'When you respect money, money will respect you.'
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The team behind 'The Lego Movie' approached me. They wanted to do something extra special for the Academy Award performance of best song nominee 'Everything is Awesome.' They had seen my earlier version of a Lego Oscar statue, and I was happy to take on the challenge.
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Listen to my voice - I sound like I'm permanently congested.
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Aficionados of Slow design and Slow fashion use ethical and green materials to make objects - furniture, clothes, jewellery - that lift the spirit and last a lifetime rather than one catwalk season.
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I don't prepare myself for a specific fighter. I don't choose a fight to prepare myself for another fighter.
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People never believe you.
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The fitness builds the foundation for me as an actor to have clarity. Fitness has always been the base of where I start off as a performer.
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In any authoritarian society, the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside, he will come after you. This is equally true of Sovietism, of China and of Iran, and in our time it has happened a lot in Islam. The point is that it's worse when the authoritarianism is supported by something supernatural.
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If anything changes shape or takes off without me, I'll come after you and kill you. I'm too type A.
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I want to dress well. I want to look good.
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And I think there's something about conservatives frankly - and the Left, when it comes to their channels of persuasion, are unpersuasive. They are, most of them are hate-filled, obscenity-clogged rants of anger and hatred.
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I started working on ribosomes when I was a post doc, in 1978, when it would have been impossible, really, to solve it. But, it was just a fundamental problem in biology.
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An arts degree is like a diploma in origami. And about as much use.
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In retrospect, the most unnerving aspect of being openly gay was that it turned out to be as disappointingly normal as being straight.
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The only failures are those who fail to try.
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It is more important to influence people than to impress them.
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When you have too many top priorities, you effectively have no top priorities.
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When I have a bad show, I can't wait until I can get back on stage to forget about it.
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My dad had a steady job with a really major dance band from '54 till '68, and then quit because he wanted to play different music. He wanted to sing about peace. He believed in these things.
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My foray into young adult lit was by no means planned. I wrote the first 'Alfred Kropp' book as an adult novel, which everyone loved but no one would publish - until I changed my protagonist from a thirty-something P.I. into a 15-year-old kid. After that, it was off to the races, and I am so glad.
