Gene Luen Yang Quotes
The thing about research is that there's no end. You constantly have this fear that an expert who knows more than you will call you out on some detail in your book.
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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
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I've been searching for ways to heal myself, and I've found that kindness is the best way.
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I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.
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When my lady and I sit down and watch TV, I find she gets annoyed at characters because they don't do what she would do in the situation. I'm always like, 'Well, she has to do that because that's what the story is.'
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I don't start writing a script until I can see it all in my head, then it's a matter of getting it down in white heat.
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I do constantly get to change the way I look, which is sort of an old-school idea of acting.
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I've been accused of wanting to allow terrorists to have weapons to attack America.
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I've always gone for the more sensitive, bookish guy, totally. The jock boys, the sporty guys, I don't know... they just didn't do it for me.
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I'm a slow starter.
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I think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art.
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I used to play the trombone and the trumpet, which I still have, but I haven't picked up for a long time.
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The reason that last-ditch political maneuvering has become business as usual in Washington is that the actors involved are drunk on blame and are convinced that the voting public is, too. They count on outrage, thereby spreading numbness. They cherish the prospect of partisan fury, thereby inspiring nonpartisan disgust.
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You can think of all the things a Congress or a legislature does, and then you kind of overshadow that with the fact that a few people are going to make those decisions.
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I became fascinated with the concept of speak no, see no, hear no evil. And - and the actual depiction of three wise monkeys. And I began collecting it over the years. And I kind of figured that I might be the - the fourth monkey, the feel no evil monkey.
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Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
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I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.
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When I got to Florida, I was a British kid, but I was also an Indian kid: a brown kid with an English accent. Talk about being an outsider. And that's become the theme of a lot of the stuff I write about.
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I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
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Certain artists can get away with certain things. Certain things are acceptable for certain people. It's a difference.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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I distracted myself from the fear and terrorism by thinking about things like how the universe began and whether time travel is possible.
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For commercial books in a genre, readers' and editors' expectations may be fairly rigid. Some romance lines, for instance, issue fairly detailed writers' guidelines explaining exactly what must happen in a book they publish (and what must not).
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Without danger I cannot be great. That is how I pay for Abel's blood. Danger and fear follow my steps everywhere. Without them courage would have no sense. And it is courage, courage, courage that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor.
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The thing about research is that there's no end. You constantly have this fear that an expert who knows more than you will call you out on some detail in your book.
