Gene Luen Yang Quotes

I'm a cartoonist. I write and draw comic books and graphic novels. I'm also a coder.

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• I'm glad I went through all the normal teenage dramas that a lot of people go through. I can really relate to 'Secret Life' because I witnessed those similar struggles.

  

  Francia Raisa
  • People
  • Life
  • Normal

• Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Money
  • Madness
  • Collective

• I think violence can never be justified.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Think
  • Never
  • Violence

• Religion is such an important part of so many people's lives, and I don't understand it at all.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Important
  • Religion

• Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Family
  • Rules
  • Bitter

• If I can put it together, I've got an opportunity to win.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Together
  • Opportunity
  • Win

• Cultural industries will be the next engine for growth after real estate, and Wanda will make cultural industries our long-term focus.

  

  Wang Jianlin
  • Long
  • Real
  • Focus

• The kids never listen to you, especially the youngest ones.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Kids
  • You
  • Never

• Everything people say I couldn't do I've done.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • People
  • Done
  • Say

• Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may.

  

  Sam Houston
  • May
  • Learn
  • Texas

• I'm extremely grateful that I found writing, but it doesn't make it any more peaceful.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Writing
  • Grateful
  • Peaceful

• If it was all about me, I'd do a whole lot of pop records, make a whole lot of money, just rake in the dough. But it's never been all about me. It's all about being a voice for the voiceless. People who can't speak for themselves, who don't have a mic, don't have a say.

  

  Ice Cube
  • People
  • Money
  • Voice

• I suppose that Heartland, Unknown Soldier and Pride and Joy represent not a quieter side but more of a serious side to my work, something I've been getting into recently.

  

  Garth Ennis
  • Work
  • Joy
  • Serious

• I think that the major message in 'Shrek: The Musical' is be who you want to be. I think that it is about being your true self in this world.

  

  Daniel Breaker
  • World
  • True
  • Think

• I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.

  

  Mae West
  • Real
  • Model
  • Lady

• I will love you forever, he thought. I am lying, he thought, and this time he was right.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Time
  • Forever

• Sure, Kill Bill's a violent movie. But it's a Tarantino movie. You don't go to see Metallica and ask the fuckers to turn the music down.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Music
  • Movie

• The beautiful seems rightBy force of Beauty, and the feeble wrongBecause of weakness.

  

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • Beautiful

• I listen to top 40, old country, blues... I'm really into Roger Miller.

  

  King Tuff
  • Country

• Well, one of the things I love about 'The Office' is that it has so much heart.

  

  Kate Flannery
  • Heart
  • Things
  • Much

• I don't believe in "average people" doing anything about the climate. People outght to support mitigation and adaptation within their own line of work, no matter how un-average that is. I mean: if you're a butcher, baker, ballerina, banker, or a plumber, envision yourself as the post-fossil-fuel version of yourself, and get right after it

  

  Bruce Bruce
  • People
  • Work
  • Adaptation

• Wet Hot American Summer so far is a financial disappointment and money was lost on it. But perhaps it will find its audience in video, cable, etc, maybe over the course of years.

  

  David Wain
  • Money
  • American
  • Lost

• I'm a cartoonist. I write and draw comic books and graphic novels. I'm also a coder.

  

  Gene Luen Yang