Ken Liu Quotes
'The Grace of Kings' was meant to read like a set of legends about characters who were bigger than life.
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There is a huge reservoir of support for abortion rights from ordinary women. I hear all the time from women who had abortions and say it made possible the good life they went on to have. Social shaming silences too many.
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Being the first to cross the finish line makes you a winner in only one phase of life. It's what you do after you cross the line that really counts.
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I was always a real athletic kid. Then when I got older, I just figured it was part of life to keep training.
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There is no finer sensations in life that which comes with victory over one's self. Go forward to a goal of inward achievement, brushing aside all your old internal enemies as you advance.
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In New York, you walk everywhere, so you're amongst people all of the time, and everybody is in a hurry and going somewhere or has something on their minds. And in L.A., it's still much more of a laid-back life, at least in my experience.
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Life is an incurable disease.
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The thing is, I live a very public life, and I have to keep things personal, or else I have no personal life. It's very difficult.
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I'm living my life, not buying a lifestyle.
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I've been a massive obsessive about jazz singers all my life.
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With an undefended heart, we can fall in love with life over and over every day. We can become children of wonder, grateful to be walking on earth, grateful to belong with each other and to all of creation. We can find our true refuge in every moment, in every breath.
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A collection of strong-minded individuals who have learned how to dismiss mistakes, disappointments and problems in their personal life make up a strong team. If the majority of the team have that then, as a unit, you are almost impossible to beat.
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I never aimed to be on television or in the press. We all have a personal life, and being a public figure disrupts that.
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In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.
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I had learned of Gertrude Stein's bon mot that medicine opened all doors. This prompted me, in different moods, to view my future life as literary psychiatrist, globe-trotting tropical disease specialist, or academic internist.
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Young players need to know how to take care of themselves for life after baseball.
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I cry a lot when I feel empathy. I can feel heartbroken by life, and I cry quite easily, sometimes for no reason. It's healthy, I think.
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Life is funny. If you don't laugh, you're in trouble.
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I've been very blessed in my personal life and in my career and I have never been ungrateful for what I have.
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The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
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Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre.
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Shorter work - personal essays and book reviews - allow me to take a break from working on a book, which is good for the book and for its author.
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Only a portion of my intestinal tract was working.
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Nothing ever grows in this rotten old holeAnd everything is stunted and lostAnd nothing really rocks and nothing really rollsAnd nothing's ever worth the cost. And I know that I'm damned if I never get outAnd maybe I'm damned if I doBut with every other beat I got left in my heartYou know I'd rather be damned with you.
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'The Grace of Kings' was meant to read like a set of legends about characters who were bigger than life.
