Rick Yancey Quotes

I always feel trepidation at the beginning of every project. I worry about so many things. Time to get it right, the skill to do it justice, the will to finish. I also worry about more mundane things, like what if my computer crashes and I've forgotten to back up the manuscript?

Rick Yancey

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• Right now, I'm not really thinking about marriage.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Thinking
  • Marriage
  • Now

• But since we've been fighting for first or second place, it's grabbed the media's attention. I enjoy racing them. They are a good team and when you beat them it's something to be proud of.

  

  Larry Dixon
  • Good
  • Team
  • Attention

• I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.

  

  Dan Futterman
  • Actor
  • Writer
  • Pretend

• Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Rich
  • Poor
  • Africa

• You cannot force a state to be demilitarized. Even if a state enters a treaty where it commits to be demilitarized, there's no way to reverse statehood if it violates it.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Way
  • You
  • Where

• I never, my producer never, we never let myself just sing. We were always trying to get the perfect vocal.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Trying
  • Perfect
  • Myself

• Burton Cummings joining the Guess Who in January 1966 changed my life forever. It's been a rocky affiliation, no doubt. One journalist once described our relationship as the longest running soap opera in Canadian history. That may be a bit oversimplified.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Life
  • May
  • History

• Even the pyramids might one day disappear, but not the Palestinians longing for their homeland.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • Day
  • One Day
  • Pyramids

• Even when folks are hitting you over the head, you can't stop marching. Even when they're turning the hoses on you, you can't stop.

  

  Barack Obama
  • You
  • Stop
  • Over

• I'm a mom, a full-time mom when I'm not taping. I do the carpool thing, and bake the cookies, and do the homework.

  

  Vanna White
  • Time
  • Mom
  • Homework

• You go to see movies to feel something, and being terrified - there's something so fun about that.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Fun
  • Feel
  • Movies

• How many women in this world are served breakfast in bed every morning by a gorgeous young man? I am. So how do I feel about older age? Crazy about it! Wouldn't trade it for anything!

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • World
  • Women
  • Age

• Adventures suck when you're having them. - Roadshow ()

  

  Neil Peart Rush

• The mountains dwindled away into hills covered with a dark, stunted scrub. Beyond them the land flattened out to the horizon, a treeless immensity of white and gray-green, a spongy mossiness flecked with a million icy ponds. The wind blew, sometimes hard, sometimes harder.

  

  Leigh Brackett
  • Dark
  • Wind
  • Green

• Every region should retain representative samples of its original or wilderness condition, to serve science as a sample of normality. Just as doctors must study healthy people to understand disease, so must the land sciences study the wilderness to understand disorders of the land-mechanism.

  

  Aldo Leopold
  • People
  • Science
  • Study

• For thousands of years, poetry has been picturing love as a mysterious and tragic power. But when anyone says the same thing in plain prose, and adds that life would be colourless and poor without the great passions, then this is called immorality!

  

  Ellen Key
  • Life
  • Great
  • Power

• I fell off stage and bruised some ribs. The worst part was that the audience didn't realize I was gone.

  

  Richard Marx

• It is with passion that I love my job. But it is with character that I am able to keep looking forward. Not just beyond criticism or bad results, but also beyond the good moments, too. Everything has to be a balance.

  

  Claudio Ranieri
  • Good
  • Character
  • Job

• I don't read my own reviews and I haven't for probably 15 years. I read other people's reviews, though.

  

  Kevin Bacon
  • People

• I practice staying calm all the time, beginning with situations that aren't tense.

  

  Martha Beck
  • Time
  • Beginning
  • Practice

• It's nothing that happens overnight. The process is beginning, and we'll be finished by Saturday.

  

  Paul Williams The Temptations
  • Beginning
  • Nothing
  • Saturday

• Toronto was a great place to work, a fun place to work. People were so hockey-oriented, hockey-minded, without being too critical. In Montreal, they got downright nasty sometimes.

  

  Pat Burns
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• I don't take jokes from other people. It's really not cool to steal jokes from anybody. It's not cool to steal anything from anybody. Jokes are no different.

  

  Brian Regan
  • People
  • Different
  • Jokes

• I always feel trepidation at the beginning of every project. I worry about so many things. Time to get it right, the skill to do it justice, the will to finish. I also worry about more mundane things, like what if my computer crashes and I've forgotten to back up the manuscript?

  

  Rick Yancey
  • Beginning
  • Computer
  • Project