Gene Luen Yang Quotes
Figuring out a way to balance the Boxer story with the Chinese Christians was difficult.
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Life does not owe me a shred.
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I think the best president - because he changed the whole mood of the country, the whole economy of the country, and stood up to Communism... that was continuing its causes around the world, and backed them off and caused them to collapse - and that was Ronald Reagan.
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If I can't face my accusers, that's a joke. We did that in medieval times.
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After spending 22 years in Ohio, I love everything about New York.
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I believe in the free enterprise system.
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I hate a man who always says 'yes' to me. When I say 'no' I like a man who also says 'no.'
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I personally don't think you should ever date someone you work with, will work with, etc. I won't ever date an actor.
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Rarely do you walk down the street doing anything that my grandparent's generation did. And half of that comes with the technology advances.
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When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.
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We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were.
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I make a lot of soups, and I love stews. My mother's a big foodie. She went to culinary school in New Orleans and has an oyster-artichoke soup recipe that has no cream in it but it tastes so creamy.
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In the West, if a city faces financial difficulties, it'll go bankrupt. But in China, cities will be subsidised by the Ministry of Finance. So some small- and medium-sized cities aren't worried about going bankrupt. They figure the central government will help them out.
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Thus, neither my government nor myself, personally, are without ideals and responsibilities.
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For a spinner growing up in England, it is challenging to become an off-spinner. The line and length needs to be altered on each of the four days of county cricket or five days of Test matches. The pitches in England don't have a set pattern. It changes with each day, and accordingly, the length varies.
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I have taxidermy pets that are very close to me. I have a little lizard with a head that comes on and off that I call Nicolas Cage because his face is long. And I have a big diamondback rattlesnake called Rufus, and I have some rats in jars and stuff.
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It's well worth making your own harissa, but there are some very good commercial varieties.
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After I do my first writing of the day, I will generally look at Twitter and Google News - and that's my big media secret. I look at Twitter and I look at Google because they pull all the headlines from other websites.
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Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.
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I got into real estate very much by accident.
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My first novel, 'The Tiger's Daughter,' embodies the loneliness I felt but could not acknowledge, even to myself, as I negotiated the no man's land between the country of my past and the continent of my present.
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Walk a mile in my shoes is good advice. Our children will learn to respect others if they are used to imagining themselves in another's place.
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The part that I think is one of the most interesting is of course the one that Hayden Christensen plays.
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American Gods is about 200,000 words long, and I'm sure there are words that are simply in there 'cause I like them. I know I couldn't justify each and every one of them.
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Figuring out a way to balance the Boxer story with the Chinese Christians was difficult.
