Gene Luen Yang Quotes
During the Cultural Revolution, the communists came in, and what they wanted to do was eradicate all sense of traditional Chinese culture.
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You go where you think it's good for your work and your soul to go. I need to go someplace where I am reminded about why I wanted to act in the first place, and for me, that's the theater.
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We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.
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Not to speak disparagingly of Justin Bieber or Rihanna, but they're not so hands-on with their image or their sound. They don't write the music. They have people doing things for them.
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My first job ever was on 'Peak Practice.' I just had to walk up the stairs. They kept the take where I slipped slightly, which was annoying.
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In the Indian film industry, especially those of us who are in mainstream cinema, we invariably play a typical hero's role. More often than not, we cater to the public perception. However, there is a latent desire in most actors to do a role where you can go all out and experiment.
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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
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The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.
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I moved to New York when I was 21 and worked between 40 and 70 hours a week. Then I invested it all. It was really just a hustle. But I was kind of raised to work like that, so to me, it seemed very normal and natural.
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Sometimes when you're a songwriter, you kind of have this egotistic thing: you just want to write something that you love, and you don't care about if people like it or not, but personally, I want to write something that people can jive to.
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You don't need to wear Spanx if you buy my clothes. The dress, the trousers, the pencil skirt - they should do the work.
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No one needs to be reminded of racism in soccer: the xenophobia, the nativism and, yes, nationalism.
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I have been learning English on the road since I started when I was 15, so it is a slow process but making some progress. Now I think I am much more comfortable with my English. However, it is difficult, still, when I speak about something that is not tennis.
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I definitely want to win a gold medal, that should be everybody's goal.
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I'm a big believer in exercise. I'm a bigger believer in eating right, which is simply with plenty of fruits and vegetables. I'm not a gym girl, though. I've never had a gym membership.
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It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.
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I've had horrible days where you wake up with a zit, and you have to film, and it's terrible.
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I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.
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Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.
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My hands are clean, but not because I wasn't prepared to bloody them.
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There's a lot of memorization that goes on in school. You memorize vocabulary words and all these sorts of things.
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What I've learned about being trans in transition is just that sometimes good things don't happen when you try to rush things. Just as a young girl grows into a young woman, you know, we transition; we grow into our bodies the same way.
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In the final analysis, terror is also another proof of the fact that the superpower is not really a superpower. It was vulnerable.
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When you're around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it's not strange, it's just Gaga.
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During the Cultural Revolution, the communists came in, and what they wanted to do was eradicate all sense of traditional Chinese culture.
