Ken Liu Quotes
I'm often asked how I get ideas for my stories. The answer is there's no single way; every story is different.Ken Liu
Quotes to Explore
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Look at how hard it was to get to where I am. It doesn't make sense to give it up.
Oprah Winfrey -
What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.
Wallace Stevens -
To anybody who says to me, 'I'm in character,' I say, 'You should be in an asylum.' If you don't know that you're pretending, then you should really seek medical help. I don't have patience for that stuff.
D. B. Sweeney -
I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor.
Manuel Puig -
There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.
E. M. Forster -
Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
Jack McBrayer
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They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood.
Gamal Abdel Nasser -
It's never crowded along the extra mile.
Wayne Dyer -
Of course, mankind has made giant steps forward. However, what we know is really very, very little compared to what we still have to know.
Fabiola Gianotti -
We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
Sallust -
In every European nation, there have been problems in history when the society was too divided.
Harri Holkeri -
I'm not a violent person.
Manute Bol
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I don't read 'chick lit,' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill.
Joanne Rowling -
Mass media wants bright lights. Mass media wants crazy clothes.
Cameron Russell -
The growth of women's soccer and women's sports all around the world has been slow.
Abby Wambach -
When we think of war, the tendency is to picture young soldiers only in their military roles. To a large extent this dehumanizes the soldiers and makes it easier for society to commit them to combat.
Walter Dean Myers -
Practically every smartphone, tablet, and laptop is fabricated in a Chinese factory, even if they are designed here.
Walt Mossberg -
I am glad and thankful that my husband forced me to start reading for pleasure, as it took me years to listen to him and pick up a book!
Rachel Tucker
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I grew up listening to people speaking broken English. I probably picked that up. And I probably speak English almost as a second language.
Christopher Walken -
Career-driven millennials are strategic about working obsessively while they are single and earning enough money to afford advanced education. Most are patient enough to wait until 30 or later to develop their dream.
Gail Sheehy -
I recently did a play, Athol Fugard's 'Coming Home' at Long Wharf Theatre, where I played one character throughout - I sat at a table and didn't have any costume changes. Following one character's arc from beginning to end is a whole different mindset.
Colman Domingo -
So fashion was, in a way, an accident. But this world opens you up to a lot of different avenues that interested me. I loved the idea of working in different countries. And I loved the idea of construction and working with imagery. But, yes, I fell into fashion a bit by mistake.
Christopher Bailey -
The way of fortune is like the milky way in the sky; which is a meeting, or knot, of a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together : so are there a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.
Francis Bacon -
I'm often asked how I get ideas for my stories. The answer is there's no single way; every story is different.
Ken Liu