Gene Luen Yang Quotes
I think a lot of the things in my life that I become most passionate about, and most excited about, are all from comics.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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To be honest, I am very worried about the possibility of the U.K. leaving the E.U. But of course, like in the case of Catalonia, we have to respect the right to decide of the British people on a relationship that part of the Brits consider is not satisfying enough.
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When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.
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I'm the type of person, I have to study to get an A on the test.
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I worry about people who sell out to chase fame because when they get it, it might not be so satisfying.
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Because with Black Label and all the fans it's just one big family.
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I'll hear people say every so often that having HIV must not be so bad - 'Just look at Magic and how well he's doing.'
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As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.
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We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.
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There are millions of people who consume music illegally every month. Just getting them into a legal service will make the music industry way bigger than it's ever been before.
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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We did an album one time called White Mansions, about the civil war, but it was written by a guy from England. His looking at it from over there and it not being a part of his history made it so he could be objective.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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To say that people would cease to come to California if they would have to pay more taxes is to underestimate the advantages of being in California - mightily.
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There's nothing funnier than the human animal.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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Healthcare is a very complicated business and you need a very different business model to be successful in India; yet at a global level, there are a lot of challenges and opportunities.
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I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play.
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My family deals with those risks. The best I can do is talk to them about some of those risks. I'm not incredibly specific with them, especially with my kids.
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Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two.
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I struggle with deciding when to answer or ignore the constant speculation about my private life, because I feel like that doesn't belong to anybody but me.
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I think a lot of the things in my life that I become most passionate about, and most excited about, are all from comics.
