Ken Liu Quotes
The way a story makes an argument is quite different from the way a persuasive essay does it. Emotional truth and the logic of metaphors dominate.
Quotes to Explore
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If I must choose between healthy and tasty, I go for the second: having only one life to waste, it might as well be a pleasurable one.
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The first prize for any production is, if you can find a location that means you don't have to build sets, that will serve, and is not excessively expensive to hire, then it can save you a lot of money.
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I got fired for giving coffee away. It was just my regulars. I'd say, 'Don't worry about it,' and they'd put down a dollar tip. Technically, I was stealing. Ethically, I was boosting morale!
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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I've never looked at my Facebook page or my website, because I'm fundamentally an amateur.
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I've had grand pianos that are more expensive than, like, a year's worth of rent.
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There's something about wearing clothes that your great-grandmother might have thought were nice that makes you look older.
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Clinton has played a major role in giving companies like Cipla credibility, for which I will always be grateful.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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I'm very drawn to characters who are very flawed. I'm less interested in characters who are just good or bad, because to me then they're not real people.
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It's no fun for me to cover a song and produce it the exact same way as it already exists. When I hear that happening, I have to say, 'What's the point?'
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With age, you get to a place where you don't want to knock people out. You just want to give people a hug.
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I can't even imagine life without music!
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It's a very hard industry, and it's very cold. It's loving for when you have a hit record, but when you don't have anything going on, there's really not much support.
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That's what's interesting about the Lower East Side: It's New York, but it's also edgy. It's not as stuffy as Tribeca or Soho.
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My senior year of high school, I got into UCLA, but my family couldn't afford it.
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It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.
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All the characters on 'Girls' are growing and changing, which is how real people behave, especially when we're young, trying to figure out who we are, doing things that are the polar opposite of our characteristics.
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My parents are not theatrical people, but my dad took me to the theater.
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Ordering is difficult. It's like arranging pieces of music in a concert: What do you put first? What do you put after the intermission? I want the reader to be sort of surprised, to come to each story freshly.
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Science is about finding ever better approximations rather than pretending you have already found ultimate truth. A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
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'Going Back to Cali' is one of my favorite songs because of all the East Coast - West Coast rivalry.
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The way a story makes an argument is quite different from the way a persuasive essay does it. Emotional truth and the logic of metaphors dominate.
