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.
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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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.
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I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.
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You must prune dead or dying wood.
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I never try to follow a trend or fashion.
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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.
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Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
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I'm into menswear slacks that are comfortable.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Maui reminded me of San Diego: beautiful, but crowded.
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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.
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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.
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My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.
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I'm a believer in home-made recipes and concoctions, so I stick to natural or herbal products as much as I can. I also meditate regularly to de-stress.
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We'll free every slave in every town and region. Can anybody get a bigger army than that?
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Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining.
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There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda, or woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
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I read in 'Life' magazine that Asians had developed an operation to enlarge eyes, and I yearned to have this done. I wanted to dye my hair brown and to anglicize my name. Self-hate was the most terrible cost of the war years for me.
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Run for office? No. I've slept with too many women, I've done too many drugs, and I've been to too many parties.
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Here I am, Philip, am I indoors or am I out? Do I take my hat off or keep it on?
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I don't believe in reducing a style and a voice down to a set of descriptions, so I've never done that.
