Ken Liu Quotes

Almost all of my stories can be understood to be elaborations on our drive to remake the world and our adjustments to the result.

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• The trick to acting is not to show off, it's to think the thoughts of the character.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Character
  • Thoughts
  • Acting

• My main concern with the condition of mathematics in high school is that there's a lot of fear involved! Math is not, generally speaking, presented in a fun way. The concepts, as I see them, are fun, and that's the way I'd like to convey them myself.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • School
  • Fun
  • High

• Americans should be wary of the Muslim Brothers in Egypt but not scared of them.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • Scared
  • Brothers
  • Egypt

• Unfortunately, the Senate Democrats have become an extreme party. They have become a party that has abdicated their responsibilities. Under Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats, we have a do-nothing Senate.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Party
  • Become
  • Democrats

• My core belief is that if you're complaining about something for more than three minutes, two minutes ago you should have done something about it.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Done
  • Belief
  • Complaining

• Our quarterbacks were getting hurt; a couple got kicked out of school. The coach asked who wanted to try out for QB. I went and tried out, and from there on, I was a quarterback. I was ineligible in 10th grade until spring, so I did baseball. I started in left field and pitched.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • School
  • Couple
  • Hurt

• Blip.tv is growing its audience by forming partnerships with traditional TV manufacturers and a new breed of company in the set-top box market that lets consumers connect to the Internet via their televisions.

  

  Adam Ostrow
  • Growing
  • Internet
  • Partnerships

• I was very rebellious.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Very
  • Rebellious

• My mother had an illegal abortion in 1960, which was the year the birth control pill came out, but I guess a little late for her, but - and I never knew. I found out when my father, after her death, got her FBI file.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Death

• In 1956, I received an invitation to a dedication of an observatory in the Soviet Union, in Soviet Armenia, as a guest of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • Dedication
  • Soviet

• Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?

  

  Oscar Hammerstein II
  • Love
  • Beautiful
  • Me

• In the United States, man does not feel that he has been torn from the center of creation and suspended between hostile forces. He has built his own world, and it is built in his own image: it is his mirror. But now he cannot recognize himself in his inhuman objects, nor in his fellows.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • World
  • Man
  • Mirror

• If you're a casting director, you're going to be curious to see what Timothy Spall's son is like. But when you get in the door, you have to have something to offer.

  

  Rafe Spall
  • Son
  • Door
  • Director

• I come from a background where money has never been an issue.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Money
  • Never
  • Where

• There are a lot of historical novelists who do the research about the clothes and maybe even the eating utensils, but they're basically taking modern people and putting them in old drag - it's sort of the 'Gone With the Wind' approach.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Wind
  • Research

• I don't find it hard to direct myself. I can easily think of me as a horrible performer or a good performer. I work with actors who cannot stand watching or looking at themselves, which is not my case. I can have an eye and perspective on whether I'm terrible or good enough for me.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Good
  • Work
  • Myself

• I went to Sunday School and liked the stories about Christ and the Christmas star. They were beautiful. They made you warm and happy to think about. But I didn't believe them.

  

  Frances Farmer
  • Believe
  • School
  • Happy

• I'm from a country where acting is taken very seriously; it's a very serious profession.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Country
  • Taken
  • Serious

• I think what my father appreciated was the science experiment of life. He had these kids, and they had their own experiences. He wanted us to discover the world for ourselves.

  

  Ahmet Zappa
  • Life
  • World
  • Kids

• If you are penitent, you love. And if you love you are of God. All things are atoned for, all things are saved by love. If I, a sinner even as you are, am tender with you and have pity on you, how much more will God have pity upon you. Love is such a priceless treasure that you can redeem the whole world by it, and cleanse not only your own sins but the sins of others.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • World
  • God
  • Love

• I think that being Jewish is in some ways unique because there's this conflation of race, culture and religion.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Culture
  • Religion
  • Unique

• I fell so hard for the theater. I knew it was a place where you can sort out your life.

  

  Joel Grey
  • Life

• 'I know' Helena said and this is another example of why behave this way? Things just poured out of her mouth lately, like vomit, and sometimes it actually was.

  

  Daniel Handler
  • Why

• Almost all of my stories can be understood to be elaborations on our drive to remake the world and our adjustments to the result.

  

  Ken Liu
  • World