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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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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There are realities we all share, regardless of our nationality, language, or individual tastes. As we need food, so do we need emotional nourishment: love, kindness, appreciation, and support from others.
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’Tis colder outside than a well-born maiden’s heart.
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If you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.
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Our gifts seem so small in comparison to God’s. But our efforts count, even though like Simeon we only stretch out our arms in the patience of faith so that we may receive the Holy Gift. Even though we only wait, poor and yearning in the darkness, in fervent longing for the proclamation, we are ready, and may help bring about the fullness of time.
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
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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.
