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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It wasn't until I set out to write a novel about marriage that I realized how little I knew about the institution.
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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 realised a little bit to my astonishment that I can give a lecture for a thousand people, and there will be this tumultuous applause, so, you know, I have the feeling well, it can't be all that bad.
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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 need to stop looking outside and look inside - and it's such a good feeling. A feeling of love and that everything is going to be OK, and all you have to do is nothing.
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Most memoir writers will tell you that the hardest part of writing a memoir isn't what to include, but what to leave out.
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I view myself as a dealmaker.
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My theory is that sometimes writers write books because they want to read them, and they aren't there to be read. And I think that was true of me.
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I'm not a programmer myself, but I am a very, very picky end user of technology. I like my machines to work they way they're supposed to, all the time.
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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.
