Ken Liu Quotes
When I act as a translator, I am really doing a performance for my fellow Anglophone readers in the West.
Ken Liu
Quotes to Explore
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The first 'D' is to dream: dream big - not for yourself, but for the country and for the world. The second 'D' is to discover: discover your full potential and the opportunities that surround you; and the third 'D' is to do. 'Do' means to act on your dreams and make best use of the opportunities you have discovered.
Kailash Satyarthi
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I think I've really exhausted the magical. It was a lot of fun, but I've put it behind me for the time being.
Joanne Rowling
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I try genuinely, when I'm playing a character, to not judge them and just to inhabit someone as how one sees them. That being said, you also want to make sure that you don't blur the edges of people too much because humans are naughty and complicated beings.
Eddie Redmayne
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By preventing pneumonia and other diseases, we are giving men, women and children the chance to live healthy productive lives and participate in the global economy. In doing so, we are not only enhancing their futures - we are enhancing our own.
Mandy Moore
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I've been a comedian, hosted travel shows, explored world religions, started improv troupes, given keynote speeches at conferences around the country, and had a milk shake named after me called the Handicappuccino.
Zach Anner
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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I just wanted to do this all Australian film and we didn't want to give creative control to overseas 'cause whoever comes on my sets, whether you're sweeping the floor or an actor, it doesn't matter who comes up with the ideas, it's a collaboration.
Yahoo Serious
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If I don't write, I hate myself. Simple as that. My life is out of balance.
Harlan Coben
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My dad was an absentee dad, so it was always important to me that I was part of my daughter's life, and she deserved two parents, which is part of the rationale behind us staying married for 30 years.
Samuel L. Jackson
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So often, literature about African people is conflated with literature about African politics, as if the state were somehow of greater import or interest than the individual.
Taiye Selasi
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It's been said that astronomy is a humbling and, I might add, a character-building experience.
Carl Sagan
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From the time you open the newspapers to the time the lights go off at night, it's all lies. We lie the most to the people closest to us. For fear of hurting them, breaking their heart, or worrying them.
Karan Johar
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There's not many Americans, certainly not many of the teenagers I met when I first went to America, knew anything about blues musicians at all. … They do now, which is very groovy.
Mick Jagger
The Rolling Stones
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Let me explain something about guitar playing. Everyone's got their own character, and that's the thing that's amazed me about guitar playing since the day I first picked it up. Everyone's approach to what can come out of six strings is different from another person, but it's all valid.
Jimmy Page
Led Zeppelin
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The Beckhams are really inspiring and have very elegantly risen to being the most powerful brand in the country. I'm sure a lot of couples look at that and say, 'Wow.'
Ronan Keating
Boyzone
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Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.
Albert Pike
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Research indicates that most women want their man to earn more than they do.
Laura Schlessinger
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When I act as a translator, I am really doing a performance for my fellow Anglophone readers in the West.
Ken Liu
