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.

  

  Ice T
  • Rap
  • Year
  • Old

• Once I turned pro, I was like,' OK, this is not fun and games now. This is me. I'm going to come, and I work on karma. I'm not going to go after somebody if I don't have a reason behind it, so as soon as there is some sort of a reason for me to do something that I need to do, then I'll do it.'

  

  Nate Diaz
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Karma

• 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.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Risk
  • Feel
  • Audience

• A lot of business can be accomplished in the state dinners.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Business
  • Lot
  • Accomplished

• 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.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Life
  • Know

• Once we can do Pixar-quality graphics rendered in real time with interactivity, I could see games costing $200 million to make, and all of a sudden you have to sell a lot of games just to break even, so I'm a little worried someone's going to do that.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Time
  • Real
  • Quality

• I've often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying, 'This is fiction.'

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Thought
  • Bible
  • Saying

• I came to acting in a very circuitous way.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Way
  • Acting
  • Very

• I feel like an alien. I feel people don't like me. People behaved strangely after 'Rockstar.'

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • People
  • Feel
  • Alien

• I think I should get a bigger between-the-song persona, so then I'm not wandering around the stage like some mad old auntie that's saying hello to people and falling over.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • People
  • Think
  • Song

• I've always been extremely physically active.

  

  Danai Gurira
  • Always
  • Been
  • Active

• 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.

  

  Edmund White
  • Men
  • Women
  • Trying

• Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Band
  • Years
  • Thought

• 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.

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • World
  • Funny
  • Thought

• He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Find
  • Paradise
  • Paths

• 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.

  

  A. E. Waite
  • Day
  • Myself
  • Thought

• 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.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Life
  • Time
  • Done

• The more I learned about Shoeless Joe, the more I felt he was maligned.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • More
  • Learned
  • Felt

• I had a lot of songs and words and scenes stuck inside of me. So Jacknife encouraged me to bring them all out. So, in essence, 'You and Others' is my diary.

  

  Johnny McDaid Snow Patrol
  • Songs
  • Stuck
  • Diary

• I know girlfriends of mine who, when they were approaching pregnancy and starting a family, consistently went through a period right beforehand that was a last gasp kind of thing where they just wreak havoc. They fall apart, in a profound way, because there's some awareness that that's the last time they can do that for awhile.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • Time
  • Family
  • Know

• After being in a gym, you're super hungry all the time because you're burning all these calories.

  

  Jessica Szohr
  • Time
  • Gym

• Something that's interesting is how my perspective on different events can change over time even though the events themselves haven't changed. As I get older, I interpret something differently, or I can even interpret a person differently.

  Curtis Sittenfeld
  • Time
  • Different
  • Interesting

• The Internet feeds off the main press, and the main press feeds off the Internet. They're working in tandem.

  

  Matt Drudge

• '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.

  

  Gene Luen Yang
  • Time
  • Faith