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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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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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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My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.
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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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I was a curious child. I'd debate with anyone who came to the door - people from the Islamic community... Jehovah's Witnesses... anyone.
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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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We are still so close, David and I. We were at a party the other day at my mum's house and I was sitting on his lap. We're very affectionate. And I looked at him and thought after being married for 11 years! We were the only couple who were even near each other at that party. We're soul mates.
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Immortal beings have been compared to stars, these are existences that linger on long after the death of the thing itself.
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Time travel may be achieved one day, or it may not. But if it is, it should not require any fundamental change in world-view, at least for those who broadly share the world view I am presenting in this book.
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You that in far-off countries of the sky can dwell secure, look back upon me here; for I am weary of this frail world's decay.“
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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.
