Gene Luen Yang Quotes

When I first started making comics, I was living with a bunch of guys, old college friends. We had this deal. At the end of each day, they would ask me how far I'd gotten on my comic. And if I hadn't made my goals, they were supposed to make me feel really bad about myself. They happily obliged.

Gene Luen Yang

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• In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Society
  • Respect
  • Talent

• It's hard to always be on top. You go down, you go up.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Up
  • You
  • Down

• I think of New Yorkers as not taking the time to talk to someone they don't know.

  

  Carla Hall
  • Time
  • Know
  • New

• I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Important
  • Feeling
  • Yourself

• I think the Hajj tends to reflect the state of the Ummah. That's one of the things about the Hajj is that you get to see the Ummah. It's a microcosm of the Ummah's condition.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Think
  • See
  • Reflect

• The major source of photochemical smog - petroleum-fueled vehicles - can be replaced by emission-free electric vehicles.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Free
  • Source
  • Major

• Long Kiss Goodnight has a huge cult following. They could make another version of that movie right now and make a lot of money.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Long
  • Money
  • Movie

• I often tell people when you make a mistake, you not only hurt yourself, but you hurt the ones that love you.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • People
  • Love
  • Hurt

• In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.

  

  Sallust
  • Live
  • Art
  • May

• Acting is the ability to dream on cue.

  

  Ralph Richardson
  • Dream
  • Acting
  • Ability

• The best way to hold a man is in your arms.

  

  Mae West
  • Man
  • Way
  • Best

• What's really good is African drum music.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Good
  • Music
  • Drum

• I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Time
  • Think
  • Relationship

• I try to widen the horizons of every child I meet, and part of that is promoting diverse forms, be it graphic novels, stories told in a narrative voice, or more translated books, as well as more diverse writers and more diverse characters.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Child
  • Voice
  • Try

• I think there needs some attention to be paid to what sport is going to represent to young people: should it be viewed in the competitive, team-oriented sense that it is now, or does it become a vehicle for betting, which may, in effect, change the atmosphere in the stadiums and the arenas?

  

  Gary Bettman
  • People
  • May
  • Team

• I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Trust

• You walk on a set, and you have no idea - that's why I don't storyboard. It's all possible.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Why
  • You
  • Walk

• If you always think about your dreams or goals, work steadfastly towards them and continue to challenge yourself, you will definitely be able to realise those dreams or goals.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Work
  • Challenge
  • Goals

• I got sober because I was worried I was going to die next year.

  

  Matthew Perry
  • Die

• I'm, like, finishing up high school. I don't know how you can learn anything from me because I'm still, like, a teenager. I don't know what I'm doing with my life.

  

  Chloe Kim
  • Life
  • Up
  • School

• When people show loyalty to you, you take care of those who are with you. It's how it goes with everything. If you have a small circle of friends, and one of those friends doesn't stay loyal to you, they don't stay your friend for very long.

  

  John Cena
  • People
  • Long
  • Friends

• I used to go to soul nights because I loved dancing, and so did my friends, and we loved the music. We used to go listen to black American soul.

  

  Rick Astley
  • Music
  • Friends
  • Soul

• I'm attracted to male gestures and sexuality.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Sexuality
  • MAle
  • Gestures

• When I first started making comics, I was living with a bunch of guys, old college friends. We had this deal. At the end of each day, they would ask me how far I'd gotten on my comic. And if I hadn't made my goals, they were supposed to make me feel really bad about myself. They happily obliged.

  

  Gene Luen Yang
  • Friends
  • Bad
  • College