Gene Luen Yang Quotes
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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.
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Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
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I think violence can never be justified.
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Religion is such an important part of so many people's lives, and I don't understand it at all.
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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.
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If I can put it together, I've got an opportunity to win.
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Cultural industries will be the next engine for growth after real estate, and Wanda will make cultural industries our long-term focus.
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The kids never listen to you, especially the youngest ones.
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Everything people say I couldn't do I've done.
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Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may.
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I'm extremely grateful that I found writing, but it doesn't make it any more peaceful.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.
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I will love you forever, he thought. I am lying, he thought, and this time he was right.
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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.
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On the quality of life: #1. Realize that each human being has a built-in capacity for recuperation and repair. #2. Recognize that the quality of life is all-important. #3. Assume responsibility for the quality of your own life. #4. Nurture the regenerative and restorative forces within you. #5. Utilize laughter to create a mood in which the other positive emotions can be put to work for yourself and those around you. #6. Develop confidence and ability to feel love, hope and faith, and acquire a strong will to live.
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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.
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My regimen is I wake up, usually around 8:30, brush my teeth, and splash water on my face.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?
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I'm a cartoonist. I write and draw comic books and graphic novels. I'm also a coder.
