Ken Liu Quotes
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It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
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Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold.
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Politicians are so... detested; they don't actually walk amongst people now.
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Hip-hop definitely taught me a lot. Having to create your own identity and become known and respected in a male-dominated field - it requires some guts. There are times you have to be strong, and times when you have to stand alone for what you believe in.
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There is very strong historical data that suggests the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments.
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I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context.
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And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
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In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
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I try and sit on the fence because as soon as you voice any kind of opinion, people begin to think you're an idiot.
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Most people, from their second album on, find it much harder to be as spontaneously creative as they were with their first couple of records, and some people only have one thing that they do.
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There's a lot of interviews now where nobody seems to talk about anything. Like it's illegal. But it can be fun if you stay involved. Like most conversations.
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I've seen the future and it's much like the present only longer.
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I couldn't be more proud to introduce Anne-Marie Duff, a phenomenal actress who is bursting on the world stage, to Broadway audiences as Lady Macbeth.
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I made that first record in 2008, alongside the EP, but my label at the time waited three years to release it. They thought maybe someone bigger would buy it, but they didn't, so in the end they just released it themselves.
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My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
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For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.
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I'm a great believer in the experiential theory of writing.
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Hungary was the only Central European country that was not able to create a new constitution after the collapse of the communist regime.
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Seriously, I would go in a second. I'd be the first actor in space and I'd love to do it.
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I don’t care about you.
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I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first trying to make something that has not heretofore been made. Almost no new classics resemble other previous classics. At first people see only the awkwardness. Then they are not so perceptible. When they show so very awkwardly people think these awkwardnesses are the style and many copy them. This is regrettable.
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I became a clown when these docs came to the house in Berkeley and asked me to come cheer up kids. I'd just had my third spinal fusion and I was looking for something to take my mind off the pain I was in.
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Trying to predict the future is a loser's game.
