Laurence Yep Quotes

I started writing at the age of seventeen because I had a teacher in high school who said that we had to get something accepted by a national magazine to get an A. The teacher later withdrew that threat, but the writing bug bit me.

Laurence Yep

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We as women have a voice and we are decision makers in what film to see. We always support our boyfriends and husbands by going to see the male dominated films, but we don't compel them to see films with female casts.

Octavia Spencer
- Women
- Support
- Decision
The cat, it is well to remember, remains the friend of man because it pleases him to do so and not because he must.

Carl Van Vechten
- Remember
- Man
- Friend
I'd love to do a movie where I actually get to be kind of quirky and odd and dorky and all that stuff. My parents would like to see some movies where I'm not in peril. They'd appreciate it.

Rachel Nichols
- Parents
- Kind
- Appreciate
Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.

W. Somerset Maugham
- People
- Good
- Bad
I learned early on that one of the secrets of campus leadership was the simplest thing of all: speak to people coming down the sidewalk before they speak to you. I would always look ahead and speak to the person coming toward me. If I knew them I would call them by name, but even if I didn't I would still speak to them.

Sam Walton
- People
- Leadership
- Name
On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.

Indira Gandhi
- Hand
- Poverty
- Look