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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I believe we can, and must, strike a balance between our shared American values of religious liberty and freedom from discrimination. My concerns lie with the possible consequences of politically-driven legislation which claims to promote religious liberty but instead rolls back the legal protections held by LGBT Americans.
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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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You have to be your biggest believer.
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Touch is one of the most intuitive things in the world.
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When I was studying interior architecture, and playing around with glass because I really liked glass. There was one night when I blew a bubble and put a pipe into this glass I had melted and blew a bubble. From that moment, I wanted to be a glassblower.
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Learning about all those different things psychologically - about grief and my own addictions and problems and stuff like that, and really getting an education on it, I think it was part of the process of it, learning about it and trying to lick it.
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If you don't believe in yourself, somewhere or another, you sabotage yourself.
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I'm a cartoonist. I write and draw comic books and graphic novels. I'm also a coder.
