Gene Luen Yang Quotes
At any comic book convention in America, you'll find aspiring cartoonists with dozens of complex plot ideas and armloads of character sketches. Only a small percentage ever move from those ideas and sketches to a finished book.
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I've really enjoyed starting Quora from the beginning. It's really nice to have a new start to things.
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Try letting a Kindle protect your heart from sniper fire!
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I do no writing while I'm in Belgrade visiting my grandma.
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The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.
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Becoming a mom made me more contentious about expressing my true taste.
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I will tell you with 100 percent confidence, Jon Jones is not deep in my head. The fact he actually thinks that, it makes me smile every day.
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The pace of innovation may slow down or speed up depending on the appetite in the public markets, but the constant progress of technology doesn't really ever stop. There's always opportunities for new ideas and creative people to go build great things. I'm always interested in learning about those kinds of opportunities.
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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The Talented Tenth of the Negro race must be made leaders of thought and missionaries of culture among their people.
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I am not a Ph.D. in economics or a doctorate in literature that I can afford to take my singing lightly. Even if I sing a jingle, I take it as seriously as oxygen.
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Mankind's feeling of responsibility to create a decent life and make it worth living with dignity has always been stronger than the will to kill life.
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'Vanity' means worthlessness.
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I did not want to go out at 5:30 in the morning with my stocking cap and my navy pea coat on and shoot lines and grades for the rest of my life.
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In falling over in heels while trying to look attractive, you don't just hurt your body, you bear the humiliation of injuring your very soul. Physical pain? Whatever, bring it on. But the humiliation? Oh, you have seen to the very weakest part of me.
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I'm never running for office. I love being able to speak to members of Congress or members of the Senate and floating on either side, because it takes all of us. It's going to take both of them.
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No one ever complains about a speech being too short!
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.
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I get to surf every day.
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At its best, travel should challenge our preconceptions and most cherished views, cause us to rethink our assumptions, shake us a bit, make us broader minded and more understanding.
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An education program is, by definition, a societal program. Work should be done at school, rather than at home.
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Head Start's ability to improve the educational skills and opportunities of Latino children will be an important component of America's future success.
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My dad is still the only Mraz in the Mechanicsville phone book, so he's getting calls from girls to see if I'm home!
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At any comic book convention in America, you'll find aspiring cartoonists with dozens of complex plot ideas and armloads of character sketches. Only a small percentage ever move from those ideas and sketches to a finished book.
