Gene Luen Yang Quotes
I never worked a job that required research. I'm not really good at it, to be honest.
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At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
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What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
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I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''
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My daughter Mira's first media experience was with the first-generation iPad more than five years ago. Her speech therapist used this with her to encourage her to talk, as she was speech delayed. I watched as she immediately navigated the iPad naturally, with such ease.
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The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.
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A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.
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I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.
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My sister married an American and took his name, and my brother has shortened Sayrafiezadeh to Sayraf. So now he's Jacob Sayraf, or sometimes Jake Sayraf. He made the change when he was a teenager, prior to the Iranian revolution and the hostage crisis. So I don't think it was motivated by any anti-Iranian sentiment in the United States.
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My father had very little formal education.
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Imperialist enterprise draws political consequences.
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I do not want to be sheriff of Hillsborough County, seriously.
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Color is born of the interpenetration of light and dark.
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I have such difficulty calming down - my stomach, my head, reality, everything. That is the reason I live in Faro.
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Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.
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A lot of producers now are people who stay in their office and never go to the set. I don't know how you can be the advocate of the movie if you're not there in it every day.
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Once I'm in a situation where I can not do anything for three years and go off the map, I'll focus more on writing. Right now, I want to just make Flume awesome... and big.
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No matter who you are, the grass is never greener on the other side.
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We need to understand that the Geneva Conventions are not just some historical documents born of another time, created for another purpose.
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You can never be comfortable with your success, you've got to be paranoid you're going to lose it.
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Funding that is focused on the ability to diagnose diseases precisely will just have inestimable value because that's the gate through which precision medicine has to go. Unless you can diagnose the disease precisely, care has to remain in the hands of expensive institutions and expensive caregivers.
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Human spirit, things that aren't tangible, fascinate me, so I'm always researching mind, spirit, soul.
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People always accuse me of making these dark, depressing movies. 'Why do you have to pick up on real issues? People are so exhausted and miserable.'
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I never worked a job that required research. I'm not really good at it, to be honest.
