Gene Luen Yang Quotes
'Boxers' was more time consuming simply because it was longer, but 'Saints' was definitely harder. I think it's just hard to talk about faith in general.

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We have groups that do that, but I can't rap with the mentality of an 18 year old when I'm in my 30's.
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All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.
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A lot of business can be accomplished in the state dinners.
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You'll be fooled if you only get your hip-hop from the mainstream, you know. The things that move people are not just found in the mainstream cultures. And when we talk about hip-hop in general, hip-hop's basically preoccupied with life.
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I've often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying, 'This is fiction.'
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I feel like an alien. I feel people don't like me. People behaved strangely after 'Rockstar.'
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I've always been extremely physically active.
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Women and gay men have something in common after all: in that they are trying to deal with this goofy egotistical monster called a man.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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It's funny: when I set out to create the world of 'California,' I didn't give the type of apocalypse much thought... I simply set my two characters, Cal and Frida, in a depleted world and moved through it intuitively.
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He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.
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It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.
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I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.
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The more I learned about Shoeless Joe, the more I felt he was maligned.
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I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.
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Guys back in the day, we didn't have wallets. I never kept my money in my pocket; my money always went in my sock. My key my mom gave me, I put it in my sock - whatever it was.
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I won't leave any unfinished manuscripts.
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One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.
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It's wonderful doing concerts in places like New York and London, but I feel a responsibility to also bring my work home, to bring world-class, classical music to Somerset.
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The reporter wrote with the hope that he would get a by-line in the Times, a testimony to his being alive on that day and all the tomorrows of microfilm.
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I associate the truest spirit of Christmas with certain years when I had to spend it at my parents' house as an adult who had, presumably, escaped.
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In America, they are very respectful of your work. People are not judgmental. They like difference - to be different is a force. In France, you have to be like the girl next door.
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Unfortunately, I am not the typical, old-school, 'Yes dear, you're right,' just to get out of a situation. I am more of the type to work it out until you think I'm right or I think you're right.
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'Boxers' was more time consuming simply because it was longer, but 'Saints' was definitely harder. I think it's just hard to talk about faith in general.