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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In tennis, because of the way it's scored, I don't think that scoring one point out of luck is ever decisive in winning. But, of course, it depends on the moment.
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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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I have little routines in the theater. Once I've established something, like the order of putting on makeup and a costume, I have to invariably do it in the same order every time, even if I only did it by chance the first time round.
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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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'Dead Aid' is about the inefficacy and the limitations of large-scale aid programs in creating economic growth and reducing poverty in Africa.
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I feel very sorry for the one or two North Korean defectors who were caught by Chinese police while entering South Korean or foreign embassies in Beijing, but their arrest drew the whole attention of the world.
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The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.
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If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world.
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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.
