Ken Liu Quotes
I am not an expert on Chinese science fiction. I probably know more than anyone else in the West, but that doesn't actually mean I am an expert.
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I think it's such a powerful thing: Words and melodies, and you put them together. I couldn't really picture a world without music. It would be quite boring.
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I'd work with soccer coordinators at Game Changing Films and have one or two combat training sessions with my stunt double, who's a wushu master.
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Now that our kids are getting older, they need their space. We dug out the basement so they will have a place to go crazy in the wintertime. My son is already talking about how he's going to make a skateboard ramp. It's just a mosh pit down there, so they can do whatever they want. We're not even going to finish it.
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The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
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Parenting is an impossible job at any age.
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You don't go into politics unless you want to win.
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Rupert Murdoch is the most dangerous man in the world.
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When Orientals are attacked, they don't hit back.
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How many times do I have to repeat this: my childhood was fantastic.
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The rarity is the sudden epiphany or single turning point showing you with dramatic clarity that your marriage is over, although that does happen. Most relationships hover on a precipice for years before one party or the other finally decides it is time to jump, and coming to the decision isn't easy.
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You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.
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Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.
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The application of a strong magnetic field enables the measurement of the energy of the most penetrating particles to be carried out, and the method may be capable of still further extension and improvement.
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It's interesting for me because in my work, a lot of times, I like to scrutinize the clothes and think what's going to make them look dated, and I do the same with vintage. In vintage, you want something unique and different, but at the same time, something that doesn't make you look like you dress like a grandpa.
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Some people think that welfare reform should have hurt Bill Clinton with black voters.
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I eat right and stay healthy as much as possible.
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It was surreal to play opposite Angela Lansbury and Elaine Stritch, Bernadette Peters and Catherine Zeta-Jones. There was so much to learn just from watching them, and it was an honor to share the stage with women who have accomplished what they have.
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Religion has a good place and it has its good people.
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When it came to rock, I was always drawn to guitars.
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Love people and serve them.
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I didn't get good breaks on TV.
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Readers are made by readers - it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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I don't care if it's one dollar or a thousand dollars - I'm going to go out and get it.
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I am not an expert on Chinese science fiction. I probably know more than anyone else in the West, but that doesn't actually mean I am an expert.
