Gene Luen Yang Quotes
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'Heroes' really changed the game for me in a way that nothing before it had.
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So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!
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It's often discouraging sitting working at home, wondering whether to put the heating on, answering the doorbell to the gas board, feeling it's all utterly pointless.
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I firmly believe that one of the best kept secrets to soft and glowing skin is moisturisation.
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If I wasn't going to be a surgeon, I wanted to be a farmer or grow oranges or something like that. I grow flowers now - orchids. That is something that I find very interesting.
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All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage.
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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
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Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest.
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I'd love to do a movie where I actually get to be kind of quirky and odd and dorky and all that stuff. My parents would like to see some movies where I'm not in peril. They'd appreciate it.
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My number one goal is to love, support and be there for my son.
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It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.
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I actually wanted to first direct and produce, but then I got this very cool opportunity to be in front of the camera once.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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Anti-religious sneers are a hallmark of perpetual adolescents.
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The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
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I always fall in love with qualities of people I work with.
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I'm not a one-issue person.
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When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.
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There's no secret, but inspiration has to find you working. And that's one of the key things that I've always remembered. And if I put my mind to it tonight, I think I could take a guitar, and by 2 or 3 o'clock in the morning, something will have happened - I'll have had something to hang onto. But I think that's the key.
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People forget how outcast 'They Might Be Giants' can be. They have a reputation for writing really deft, funny, clever melodies, and they also make a lot of music for kids, which is terrific, but when you see them in concert, they can rock the house.
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My younger sister Debby had died of cancer, which started me writing - the sense of life being short. Cancer focuses your mind.
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Growing up in London, with a hippie mom, I don't know that I'm most people's definition of what a black person is. I'm mixed, yes, but in the world I'm defined as black before I'm defined white. I've never been called white.
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I feel positive when I feel vulnerable, because it's another reminder that it's not all about me and about my ego.
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Writing, for me, is very inspiration-dependent. And inspiration can be a jerk.
