Gene Luen Yang Quotes
I grew up with an Apple 2E - I had a deep, emotional attachment to that machine - and I loved doodling.
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I've been married over 50 years of my life.
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I would happily have done any of the 'Bourne Identity' sequels. There are good sequels, but I'm not good at making them.
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What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.
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You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him on singles.
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I do this thing at every party: I go to a party, I stand around for, like, 45 minutes, and then I turn to my wife and say, 'I think we should go home.' And then we leave, and then I wake up the next morning and say to my wife, 'We don't go out anymore.' It's a great trick.
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Bond? It is a bit like saying, 'Do you want to play Superman?' Anyone would dream of it. It's one of the most coveted roles in film. I'd be honoured. But I don't know if it will actually happen. I'm just happy with the idea of being associated with it. It's nice there's a lot of good will.
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Personally, it was a big honor for me meeting so many families of the fallen soldiers and hearing their stories.
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I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
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I'm very competitive, and I want to win.
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Kuhn was the intellectual of whom many scientists said he's 'telling it as is it is' insofar as talking about a process of 'tinkering' in terms of theory and experiment followed by radical changes. But often, what Kuhn had in mind were some very spectacular incidents in the history of the sciences that changed our way of looking at the world.
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I went down to Venezuela and ended up renting a helicopter and flew with my sons to the tops of the tepuis, these freestanding jungle mesas, 'lost worlds' as it were. In fact, it's almost impossible to access them without one. So we were able to land and spend some time there. We were trapped for about six hours by clouds that came in.
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I'd probably put myself in the top 1% in knowledge of blight in the city of Detroit.
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I'm an actress, and that's my work and my passion.
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I don't think my parents would have let me go straight into acting full time when I was 12. I do like to have balance, naturally, as an individual.
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I think if a girl is easy to talk to then that's the first thing I look for. It's great when you meet a girl and three hours later you're like, 'Oh my gosh, we've been talking for three hours, what happened to the time?'
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The common thread in all my projects is 'girls being awesome.' Can we make that a genre?
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I want more movies like 'Straight Outta Compton.' Showing our stories of triumph, we'll make it through, and we'll get to something better.
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I do work-related stuff on airplanes. Then, when I'm in the hotel room or just vegging out, I read for pleasure.
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What I do when I create a character is put in details from all the people I know who might be like that person, and then put in a huge amount of myself.
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I have never seen so many celebrities and their pets in one place, giving such support to the cause of protecting animal rights. Protecting their rights should always be our first priority.
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The truth is that the more responsible the media outlet, the more responsive they are to constructive criticism.
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I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that.
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We have a choice, every single day that we wake up, of what we can put into the world, and I ask you to please choose love every single day.
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I grew up with an Apple 2E - I had a deep, emotional attachment to that machine - and I loved doodling.
