Gene Luen Yang Quotes
My first job was as a programmer. So I feel like I'm familiar with the information technology sector and the information technology culture.
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Every artist was first an amateur.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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To me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets.
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There are certain things women are better at than men.
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As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to control himself under all circumstances, he has a great advantage over the savage.
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I guess there are all these women with a big secret - they're hiding men they are ashamed of. They come up to me and say: 'I've been dating this guy for six months in secret but none of my friends know. I can't give him up even though he's embarrassing.'
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I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground.
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A lot of my fans are young and hip and enjoy my pop album and know the lyrics to those songs as well, which is a real compliment to me.
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I was halfway through a rough draft of 'The Sisters Brothers' when it came time to start the 'Terri' adaptation.
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People are needed to take up the challenge, strong people, who proclaim the truth, throw it in people's faces, and do what they can with their own two hands.
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I would really love to collaborate with Gwen Stefani and M.I.A.; artists that kind of make sense with me vocally. And in terms of style, I'm a very visual artist. I really love Pharell. I love people that really care about drums, and I like beat-heavy.
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A lot of things trigger my inspiration. It can be the most banal things.
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I just love scary movies. I love the thrill.
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I graduated from the University of Oklahoma, and I got the opportunity to take some on-camera classes while I was in school and met a casting director who informed me quite a bit before my move out to L.A.; it made L.A. feel possible, coming from Oklahoma and not having a family that was in the industry.
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If I can save one kid's life, for me, it's absolutely worth it.
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I've fallen in love in my life a few times. It's the most exciting part of being alive - that I've experienced, anyway.
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You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it. Democracy, marriage, friendship. You can't just say, 'She's my best friend.' That's not a given, it's a process.
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I would say I've always lived creativity, but now I - I do it with an intention that's got a completely different power.
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I'm proud of my sexuality.
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This unusual and highly successful species spends a great deal of time examining his higher motives and an equal amount of time ignoring his fundamental ones.
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I don't even remember what Mother and I quarreled about: it is a continual quarrel that began when I reached puberty.
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Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.
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When Joy Division started, I was scared to death of having to get a normal day job.
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My first job was as a programmer. So I feel like I'm familiar with the information technology sector and the information technology culture.
