Gene Luen Yang Quotes
This is a profession for me, but I started off as a self-publisher working on my own schedule and my own stuff before moving on to graphic novels with First Second Books, where there was definitely a schedule, but it was very different from monthly comics.
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The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
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I couldn't follow nobody's rules.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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There's so much innovation going on, and there are lots of people funding that innovation, but there's very little innovation on that infrastructure for innovation itself, so we like to do that ourselves to help companies create more tech companies.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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'Baahubali's success augurs well for the Telugu film industry as a whole. It has opened up new markets.
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I think media people know we're good at making content and how we can be smart about how to consume it. It's always a balance.
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I don't particularly like L.A.
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I tend to sleep in the nude... I'm a sensual-leaning woman. You have to use the word 'leaning' or it sounds like I'm boasting.
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I introduced legislation in the Senate to prohibit President Obama's amnesty. The House of Representatives stood up and led. It took the legislation I introduced and it passed it. But the Senate Democrats stood as one uniform block and said, 'No, we will do nothing to stop amnesty.'
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I think I might become a pescatarian. I love sushi, couldn't give it up.
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I wanted to go to New York and be a stage actress, doing things like Chekhov. None of that happened, and then I went to L.A. and an agent said, 'I think you belong in commercials and TV.' So I did that and got some opportunities that I absolutely love.
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I love the intimacy of venues like the House of Blues. When everyone is packed in and so close to you, it makes you play differently. It's so much more fun to play because there's so much more high energy in a place like that.
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Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.
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It is those who concentrates on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality.
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I was a disadvantaged child from a non-educated family, yet I had the advantage of being in the company of great teachers.
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I am thinking about changing the name #FakeNews CNN to #FraudNewsCNN!
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I am capable of much more. I guess every artist feels that way. If you are satisfied, you begin to stagnate. I want to grow as an actress every day. There are so many things you can learn, and you can improve upon your skills and abilities every day.
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I would rather people take me as straightforward and not have to wonder if I'm kidding or not. Because what I have to say, and what I'm interested in doing and communicating, is worthwhile enough that I don't want to muck it up with people being confused about where I'm really coming from.
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Like any long term relationships we’ve had our ups and downs. I like to think that there is still mutual respect between us as well as a love of Bad Company and our music.
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So it's not so much that I set out to do something different, it's just that the songs themselves require their own individual voice and attention.
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This is a profession for me, but I started off as a self-publisher working on my own schedule and my own stuff before moving on to graphic novels with First Second Books, where there was definitely a schedule, but it was very different from monthly comics.
