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 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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The great seats of power tend to be wide and open, not vertical and soaring. Red Square, Tiananmen Square, the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin - all massive but with large open spaces that project an image of might.
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It's something that I love about this business and that scares me about this business, but in a good way. You just never know what's going to happen. And things change constantly. But there's always opportunities for new work, so you just have to enjoy the job that you're on while you're on it because it doesn't last forever.
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You can get excited and feel unstoppable, but every week presents a new challenge. Each week, you have to work and get better.
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You get people who come to London, sever links with where they come from, and then when they need people, there's nobody there. To feel like you can't go back home would be a horribly sad place to be, as is mistaking fame for genuine love and affection.
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My recording career has luckily run the gamut of recording environments.
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'Frontline' does 10 news shows a year, so one a week is quite an undertaking.
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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.
