Rick Yancey Quotes
One of the joys of a really good book is that you're so into the world of the book, you forget what you're looking at is words on a page.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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But I prefer to go to comedies. Give me Julia Roberts smiling anyday.
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I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
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I'm very interested in the idea of a large group of people who come together quite suddenly, but not illogically, for reasons that could not have been anticipated.
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No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
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Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good.
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I've felt that if you dwell too much on your errors, you're dealing in the negativity of things. I don't like that. I'd rather work on the positive reinforcement, the things I did well.
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Mama is my chance to be a stand-up comedian. In my mind, it's my chance to be Chris Rock.
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'Grandmother' doesn't mean that you have gray hair and you retire and stay home cooking cakes for your grandchildren.
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In my opinion, baseball is as big a business as anything there is. It has to be a business, the way it is conducted.
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If you want to play the good roles, spend more time in in college and in acting class than you do in the gym, and you'll have the career you want.
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A manufacturing resurgence is what will give local communities and small towns across America a fighting chance for survival. Many of today's American entrepreneurs come from those very places but make their wealth elsewhere. We need to change that.
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Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant.
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The worst thing you can do after a test screening is slash it for the lowest common denominator.
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I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.
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Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.
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Perspective is the most important thing to have in life.
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Excessive concern with religion seems to me a last resort for people who have been exhausted by life.
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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One of the joys of a really good book is that you're so into the world of the book, you forget what you're looking at is words on a page.
