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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The wise man is not waiting for the realness of the world to prove itself to him. How can one be an authority before the experiencing of this realness? My master taught me-and to me it seems chash, meaning correct-that you must not defend against the entering of knowledge.
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I don't really see myself as famous.
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There is so much to groak; So little to groak from.
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All your names I and my friend approve of or nearly all as to sense & expression, but I am frightened by their length & sound when compounded. As you will see I have taken deoxide and skaiode because they agree best with my natural standard East and West. I like Anode & Cathode better as to sound, but all to whom I have shewn them have supposed at first that by Anode I meant No way.
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Enough talk," Peter said, and his eyes flashed. "It's time to turn you three into killers.
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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.
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I'm a cartoonist. I write and draw comic books and graphic novels. I'm also a coder.
