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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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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The beautiful seems rightBy force of Beauty, and the feeble wrongBecause of weakness.
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'Luke Cage' is about a reluctant superhero who lives in the shadows in Harlem. He has to decide if he's going to step up and fight for the heart of the city and defend the people against Cornell 'Cottonmouth' Stokes, my character, who kinda wants to keep everything in order and intact. I'm the criminal element in the story.
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There's always going to be someone out there... who doesn't believe in you or who thinks your head is too big or you're not smart enough. But those are the people you need to ignore, and those are the times you need to just keep doing what you love doing.
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With this sunrise somehow I felt I was exactly where I was supposed to be... Have faith, the light seemed to announce.
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I'm a cartoonist. I write and draw comic books and graphic novels. I'm also a coder.
