Gene Luen Yang Quotes

I kind of just write what I like to write. I'm thankful that readers of different ages seem to connect to my stories. I don't consciously think about age demographics when I'm working on my comics.

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• You don't have to spend much time in Shanghai before you start to get all existential about the meaning of authenticity. Did you know that Shanghai is building nine satellite towns, each designed to mimic the architecture and culture of a different country?

  

  Patricia Marx
  • Time
  • Different
  • Country

• I really like collections of things. I love antique botanical prints with a bunch of different weeds and seeds.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Like
  • Things
  • Really

• Age is relative. Experience is relative. And I think often intensity is confused with maturity.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Experience
  • Age
  • Confused

• While eliminating smallpox and curtailing cholera added decades of life to vast populations, cures for the chronic diseases of old age cannot have the same effect on life expectancy. A cure for cancer would be miraculous and welcome, but it would lead to only a three-year increase in life expectancy at birth.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Life
  • Age
  • Cancer

• When I went to university in Colorado, I was encouraged to write very innovative, experimental things, and some of the short stories in 'Bearded Ladies' are a little bit experimental.

  

  Kate Grenville
  • Things
  • Short
  • University

• I'm thankful I grew up the way I did. It made me a hard worker and insightful to other people's lives.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • People
  • Way
  • Lives

• In Lebanon, there are completely different opinions and values in one country in terms of religion, modernity, tradition, East and West - which allows for a kind of intellectual development not available anywhere else.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Different
  • Country
  • Religion

• I get to see the different sides of skating now which involves not only competing, but entertainment.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Different
  • See
  • Now

• I have never believed in comparisons, whether they are about different eras, players or coaches.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Different
  • Never
  • Coaches

• Maybe it's because I was named for him, but I've always wanted to meet Nathaniel Hawthorne. It's oversimplifying, but all Hawthorne's short stories and novels are, in one way or another, about guilt. Something profoundly disturbing must have happened to him at an early age. I'd like to know what that was.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Age
  • Short
  • Guilt

• I love to work in all sorts of different situations.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Work
  • Different
  • Love

• I tell you, the difference for me is between being victimized, terrorized, numbed by reading about different disasters, or reducing the anxiety by getting up and doing something about it, at whatever level.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Up
  • Different
  • Me

• Con men look for human frailty to exploit. This is most often greed. Trump found a different vice: anger. The emotional are always the most susceptible to manipulation.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Men
  • Different
  • Emotional

• Even though I'm not a competitive athlete, I have to still maintain things and try to keep myself fit because I am at that age where I need to make sure to get those regular checkups and make sure everything is in tact.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Age
  • Myself
  • Athlete

• Prior to getting into music, I interacted with, on a daily basis, about 5-10 percent of the people that I've interacted with since then. I've been meeting people from different backgrounds and different cultures. That did allow for a lot of change. I've changed as a product of that, but it's been positive.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • People
  • Music
  • Different

• People imagine that actors are being offered everything and you are not. So things come in and sometimes there are things that I want and can't get a meeting on, or go to a different actors.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • People
  • Different
  • Want

• People treat you one way when you're champion, but when you're not the champion, everything changes. People treat you different.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • People
  • Different
  • Changes

• Love has no age.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Love
  • Age
  • For Her

• My parents say that even as a very, very little kid, the way that I acted was dramatically different from other little kids.

  

  Marya Hornbacher
  • Different
  • Kids
  • Parents

• Marg Helgenberger and I were waitresses in the same restaurant in Evanston, Illinois. I'm happy to say that that restaurant has since been torn down. [...] We both had an audition for ABC soaps - different soaps, but we auditioned at the same time, and she got the part and went off to New York. Three years later, I went to L.A. So she was kind of an inspiration to me. And it makes sense that we will both be in Wonder Woman together, because we ARE Wonder Women.

  

  Virginia Madsen
  • Different
  • Together
  • Woman

• After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • People
  • Truth
  • Parents

• Everyone's second team in Italy is Leicester. In Thailand, the first team is Leicester. I've received letters from Paraguay, Uruguay, Brazil - everywhere 'Leicester, Leicester, what a legend.'

  

  Claudio Ranieri
  • Team
  • Legend

• Sharing the food is to me more important than arguing about beliefs. Jesus, according to the gospels, thought so too.

  

  Freeman Dyson
  • Important
  • Food
  • Jesus

• I kind of just write what I like to write. I'm thankful that readers of different ages seem to connect to my stories. I don't consciously think about age demographics when I'm working on my comics.

  

  Gene Luen Yang
  • Different
  • Age
  • Thankful