Gene Luen Yang Quotes
Dichotomies are an inherent part of comics, aren't they? Comics are both pictures and words. They blend time and space. Many feature characters with dual identities like Bruce Wayne/Batman. Cartoonists also tend to live dichotomous lives because many of us have day jobs.
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I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.
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As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
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The wave of the Islamic revolution will soon reach the entire world.
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As a woman, I've learned that having a uniform of your staples or setting your look and saying what distinguishes you - like red lips or hair or whatever - leaves so much time for the rest of the day.
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I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.
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I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.
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On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available.
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Catholic schools in Indonesia routinely accept non-Catholic students, but exempt them from studying religion. Obama's school documents, though, wrongly list him as being Indonesian.
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In western countries, there are roles written for older actors. Films are made on them, including love stories.
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A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
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I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.
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All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
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We bled writing these songs, we bled in the studio, and now we're out bleeding getting them right live.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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Every 20 minutes you've got to have a bump, you've got to have a change in course, you've got to unsettle the audience. It can't be too predictable so something has to happen. I think that was something that Hitchcock did very well too. You couldn't let an audience feel too settled in.
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Everything people say I couldn't do I've done.
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I think God just died of old age. And, when I realized that he wasn't any more, it didn't shock me. It seemed natural and right!
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High school golf, college golf and the decade that followed all come back to me now as one big raucous, goofy gangsome.
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I have never been over fond of scenes anywhere.
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We all know that we're going to die, but we don't know when. That's not a blessing, that's a curse.
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The dream book is always the next book.
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The thing is, the Tulsa experience that I wrote about in 'The Outsiders' is closer to the universal experience than it would be if I wrote it from L.A. or New York. It's an everyman story.
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Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.
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Dichotomies are an inherent part of comics, aren't they? Comics are both pictures and words. They blend time and space. Many feature characters with dual identities like Bruce Wayne/Batman. Cartoonists also tend to live dichotomous lives because many of us have day jobs.
