Ken Liu Quotes
Translation is an act of recreation.
Ken Liu
Quotes to Explore
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For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.
Damon Galgut
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Every song I write is autobiographical and is about people, and that's one of the things that gets complicated. You have to decide where's your place as a songwriter.
Halsey
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I write almost everything, actually. Songs, poems, stories. And stories out of every genre, too.
Jackie Evancho
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Sheikh Hasina's government is one of the best Bangladesh has ever had. She is taking action against fundamentalists. But even she refused to let me return. I don't think I can ever return home.
Taslima Nasrin
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I feel that I can't do certain things that have sent to me, scripts, because I think that really - I've been June Cleaver for so many years, because we went back, you know, and we did - 20-year hiatus we had - and we went back and made 105 new ones. And so I really feel very strongly that there are certain things I won't do.
Barbara Billingsley
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We have to be able to poke fun at ourselves.
Walt Handelsman
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I don't think Hollywood was trying to do anything with me. In fact, they lost interest pretty quick. I think I got lucky, briefly, in the '90s, and it just so happened that those movies were the opportunities that came my way. Then it just kind of stopped.
Janeane Garofalo
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I do write about people who are complex and are striving with something and can't quite get past their own stuff, which would be a proxy for myself because that's what the deal is with me.
Eric Bogosian
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People used to live lives of quiet desperation - now they go on talk shows!
Bob Thaves
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Remember something about attention. Yes, it’s possible to buy, grab, or even steal it. But it’s far better to earn it.
Baratunde Thurston
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There is no right to punish. There is only the power to punish,' she wrote. 'A man is punished for his crime because the State is stronger than he; the great crime of War is not punished because beyond the individual there is mankind, and beyond mankind there is nothing at all.
Benjamin Moser
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Translation is an act of recreation.
Ken Liu