Marjorie Liu Quotes
Women have been writing strong women characters for a long time - hello, Maxine Hong Kingston! - it's just taken mainstream comics a really long while to catch up.

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This life and this job and this position that I'm put in, it forces you to grow up quick. I definitely got dropped in the deep end.
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'In A World...' changed my life a thousand per cent. I feel thankful that something I believed in so much - I love dialect, so I dedicated five years of my life to making a film about it - yielded such rewards. It led to 'Man Up,' as well as 'No Escape,' which comes out later this year... two movies where I am the female lead.
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I now believe that major labels can only work with people who care more about fame and money than the quality of the art they produce.
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Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
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If there is an authoritarian structure at St. Hill it has been brought into being by the government itself. St. Hill is trying to correct itself. It doesn't know what it's trying to correct because nobody has told it what to correct.
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For me, surfing is as close a connection I can have with Mother Nature. To surf, you're riding a pulse of energy from Mother Nature. And it's strong. It's real. It's there. And you're dancing with that. You're connecting with that. You're might be the only person in the history of the universe that connects with that particular pulse of energy.
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I was into punk rock back when I was in high school. I used to go around to dive venues and take photographs. But now it's been just much more about the country stuff and soulful folk.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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I prefer to believe it's my responsibility if a film of mine works or doesn't work.
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Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
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I loved when my dad was home. He liked to sit in the living room and watch boxing and baseball on TV. Or he'd be tinkering around or listening to records by his musician buddies - George Shearing, Oscar Peterson and the Jackie Gleason Orchestra.
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Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.
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That is the effect of my sculptures in the public domain: people are making contact with each other again.
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It is possible that, post-Kyoto, the developed countries will recognise the requirements of the developing world.
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Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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As a species, we can at times be dimwitted and cruel. But we're also capable of learning.
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I wrote large chunks of 'The Impostor' and 'The Good Doctor' on a beach in Goa.
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We see ourselves in terms of yesterday and today. Our Heavenly Father sees us in terms of forever.
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I don't think it's any mystery that any Christians can be some of the most judgmental people on the planet.
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You have to do something different, or you are just the guy who goes out there and has a great match, but nobody cares. You have to have different layers to your character.
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I have neither the scholar's melancholy, which is emulation; nor the musician's, which is fantastical; nor the courtier's, which is proud; not the soldier's which is ambitious; nor the lawyer's, which is politic; nor the lady's, which is nice; nor the lover's, which is all these: but it is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and indeed the sundry contemplation of my travels, which, by often rumination, wraps me in a most humorous sadness.
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The biggest mistake you can make is listening to people who've given up on their dreams telling you to give up on yours.
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Women have been writing strong women characters for a long time - hello, Maxine Hong Kingston! - it's just taken mainstream comics a really long while to catch up.