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 been all around the world and I haven't found a city that I'd rather be from or rather come back to than Los Angeles.
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Be it a village or a city, education is very important, and it always comes into you.
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There are a lot of bad films out there. There's a lot of bad architecture out there, and I think sometimes it takes a lot of time to begin to see what's really good. And I think what the test seems to be is, what really sticks with you. And what really becomes a part of your life.
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Although he's no longer with us, Steve Jobs is still inspirational to me, as he managed to find the balance between right brain/left-brain thinking that is crucial to building a creative technology business.
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I am obsessed with Chinese restaurants. Like many Americans, I first discovered them in my childhood.
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Figuring out a way to balance the Boxer story with the Chinese Christians was difficult.
