Ken Liu Quotes

I don't believe in reducing a style and a voice down to a set of descriptions, so I've never done that.

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• When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.

  

  Maj Sjowall
  • Life
  • Live
  • Children

• There is one confrontation scene toward the end of the picture. In the middle of the scene, I thought, That's Sean Connery! I don't know how else to describe Sean Connery. I still feel that way.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Picture
  • Thought
  • End

• I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Like
  • Him
  • Often

• In writing about Harold and Maureen with their terrible unspoken secret, and all those people that Harold meets as he walks to save a friend's life, I was trying to celebrate the ordinary people.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • People
  • Life
  • Writing

• You must prune dead or dying wood.

  

  Warren Giles
  • You
  • Dying
  • Wood

• I never try to follow a trend or fashion.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Fashion
  • Never
  • Try

• People will say, 'Just one picture please.' That is how it starts. There is just one picture and then somebody else wants another. And when I say 'No' I feel guilty.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • People
  • Picture
  • Guilty

• Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Man
  • Human
  • Demons

• I'm into menswear slacks that are comfortable.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Comfortable

• These movies are like my kids. I just love them to death. Some of them go to Harvard and some of them can barely graduate high school.

  

  Barry Sonnenfeld
  • School
  • Love
  • Kids

• Before 'Gremlins,' I was a normal person, then within two weeks of the movie coming out, I couldn't walk into a store without people turning around and staring. It's exciting and also scary because everyone starts telling you how amazing you are.

  

  Zach Galligan
  • People
  • Movie
  • Amazing

• I wasn't in shape at all before I decided to do boxing. I wasn't an athlete. Before boxing, I would go to the gym for a month and stop.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Stop
  • Athlete
  • Gym

• Paul McCartney and The Beatles in general are my idols. And I love Sting. I got to meet Sting. That was really cool. Dustin Hoffman is my favorite actor. Also, I think of Magic Johnson as an idol.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Magic
  • Actor
  • Favorite

• Millions of Americans are standing up and saying, 'We want our country back!' Republicans, Democrats, Independents, will not go down the path of Greece, we will not go quietly into the night.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Up
  • Country
  • Night

• Maui reminded me of San Diego: beautiful, but crowded.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Beautiful
  • Me
  • Crowded

• The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Earth
  • Human
  • Very

• Some indeed have tears naturally, when the higher motion of the soul makes itself felt in the lower, or because God our Lord, seeing that it would be good for them, allows them to melt into tears. But this does not mean that they have greater charity or that they are more effective than others who enjoy no tears.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Good
  • God
  • Soul

• Felicity, the companion of content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things; and I firmly believe it requires but a little philosophy to make a man happy in whatever state he is.

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Believe
  • Happy
  • Man

• My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.

  

  Malcolm Bradbury
  • World
  • Experience
  • Interesting

• The cornerstone of the political correctness that dominates campus culture is radical feminism.

  

  Phyllis Schlafly
  • Political
  • Culture

• It was not really to be famous. I just wanted the best choir that would go out here and sing until the power of God came down. When people heard them sing, their lives would be changed and transformed because they called upon the Lord and got an answer. God would come. He would come and meet the people. He would fall on the people. They would leave the place revived, renewed, replenished with a better place of faith and trust in Him. And, they would believe in Him. And, when you believe Him, anything is possible.

  

  Ricky Dillard
  • Believe
  • Changed
  • Possible

• Even though I spent the first five years of my life in Nagasaki, going to Japan can be really difficult. Even if they know I've been brought up in the West, they still expect me to understand all the subtleties of their culture, and if I get it wrong, it matters much more than if a British person gets it wrong. I find it intimidating.

  

  Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Life
  • Up
  • Culture

• I don't believe in reducing a style and a voice down to a set of descriptions, so I've never done that.

  

  Ken Liu
  • Believe
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