Gene Luen Yang Quotes

There's something about the intimacy of comics that gives you a false bravado; you don't always consider the consequences.

Gene Luen Yang

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• I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Work
  • Happy
  • Think

• America's fine, nice, nice hiking near L.A. But I am European. I love London and Paris. Friends and intellect, big thought, why not?

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Friends
  • Nice
  • Thought

• Spaces I love to do - the uglier the better - tend to be really old, dated basements - especially from the '60s to the '80s. I love those.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Better
  • Especially
  • Spaces

• It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • New
  • New York
  • Flying

• I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Worth
  • Strife
  • None

• To be honest, I haven't seen much serious budget planning since the Republicans took control of the House after the 2010 elections and grabbed onto the Senate filibuster. It's not the White House's fault that John Boehner couldn't deliver on a bigger deal.

  

  Gail Collins
  • House
  • Control
  • Serious

• In high school, we used to sign to each other during the game, signaling different plays and stuff like that. It was kind of fun. It was definitely unique.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Different
  • School
  • Fun

• The moral attitudes of a people that is supported by religion need always aim at preserving and promoting the sanity and vitality of the community and its individuals, since otherwise this community is bound to perish. A people that were to honor falsehood, defamation, fraud, and murder would be unable, indeed, to subsist for very long.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Community
  • Moral
  • Religion

• Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.

  

  Margaret Mead
  • Time
  • History
  • Thanks

• These children should be enrolled in Independent Living programs designed by state and local governments to prepare them to enter the workplace, or attend college, and successfully manage their lives.

  

  Charles Bass
  • Children
  • College
  • Independent

• We are servants rather than masters in mathematics.

  

  Charles Hermite

• I'm actually introverted and shy.

  

  Ryan Tedder OneRepublic

• All I ever wanted to do was stand-up. It kind of charges me and gives me a rush.

  

  Kevin Nealon
  • Up

• Guys know how to read each other's signals. They know how to telegraph love for one another without throwing their arms around one another.

  

  Lynn Coady

• I rarely, if ever, had another book in mind while I was writing the previous book. Each book starts from ashes, really.

  

  Philip Roth
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Book

• If you listen to The Browns, it's a very pretty sound. It was sibling harmony, a sound that was very pleasing. I've never heard anybody that could come close to that particular sound. It couldn't be imitated.

  

  Jim Ed Brown
  • Pretty
  • Sibling

• Fleetwood Mac were really accessible musically, but lyrically and emotionally, we weren't so easy. And it was our music that helped us survive. But all of us were in pieces personally.

  

  Mick Fleetwood Fleetwood Mac
  • Music

• Somebody said I am the most popular person in Arizona because I am speaking the truth.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Truth
  • Popular

• Every one of today's smartphones has thousands of times more processing power than the computers that guided astronauts to the moon.

  

  Peter Thiel
  • Power
  • Today
  • Moon

• It's a completely reasonable diet -- heavy on fruits and vegetables and fresh, seasonal foods. I'm totally for it. It's common sense in a nice package.

  

  Marion Nestle
  • Nice
  • Diet
  • Foods

• God is not concerned about our plans; He doesn’t ask, “Do you want to go through this loss of a loved one, this difficulty, or this defeat?” No, He allows these things for His own purpose. The things we are going through are either making us sweeter, better, and nobler men and women, or they are making us more critical and fault-finding, and more insistent on our own way. The things that happen either make us evil, or they make us more saintly, depending entirely on our relationship with God and its level of intimacy.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Men
  • Women

• This intimacy is not necessary; no one is compelling me to open my inmost self and lay it naked, undefended, against that of another – merely for the joy of the communion.

  

  Sebastian Faulks
  • Joy
  • Intimacy
  • Communion

• There's something about the intimacy of comics that gives you a false bravado; you don't always consider the consequences.

  

  Gene Luen Yang
  • Intimacy