Gene Luen Yang Quotes
I love hearing people who are smarter than me talk about my comics. It makes me feel smarter.
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I'm not an A student; I'm not even a B student, but I've gotten a lot better with the reading because of texts. And I can voice-text and say whatever I want to people.
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A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased.
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For all intents and purposes, I'm a woman.
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Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.
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Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter what you say.
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I have always been driven; I've always wanted to be published, and I wanted to make that happen, so I worked very hard. 'Perfectionist' would be a word to describe me.
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The idea of revenge coming from a 14-year-old girl isn't, you know, exactly right.
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I want to be able to make people laugh and cry and feel happy or sad and feel all these different emotions through singing and acting. Hopefully throughout my career, I'll get to pursue them.
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Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition.
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Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.
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Our best thoughts come from others.
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Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
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There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.
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Age is just a number. If someone can perform at 45, who will stop that fellow from playing top-level cricket?
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I am only 33, I've got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I'm looking forward to the future and I'm proud about the past.
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I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely.
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It's a very Southern thing to be interested in dark stuff.
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When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.
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When I started drama school, theatre was the main draw. I never had any movie star notions. Not that there were family ties to the theatre, either.
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
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I had a great career. I have no reason to complain. It's the way it goes in nature. You slow down. And I believe I lasted a lot longer than a lot of people.
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Nobody actually talks to anybody anymore. People in cubicles next to each other, they e-mail each other.
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I love hearing people who are smarter than me talk about my comics. It makes me feel smarter.
