Ken Liu Quotes
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Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn't methodical, but jazz isn't messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon.
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I believe that you should gravitate to people who are doing productive and positive things with their lives.
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You graduate from film school and move to Hollywood. Hollywood tells you, 'We're not the place for you to make films,' so you decide you have to make a film yourself.
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You don't have to be desperate. Never be desperate. That is my slogan.
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I don't take fancy vacations. I buy all my jewelry at Claire's. I can't remember the last time I went out to a fancy dinner. My family lives in a modest two-bedroom apartment, and my kids share a bedroom. But I do have one extravagant vice: shoes.
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God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again.
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To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
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The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.
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It's the way you ride the trail that counts.
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Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.
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For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.
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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.
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I write almost everything, actually. Songs, poems, stories. And stories out of every genre, too.
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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.
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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.
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We have to be able to poke fun at ourselves.
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I'm Valentino Rossi. And I want to be a person, not an icon.
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To err is human, but it feels divine.
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Probably the only way Woody Allen and I are similar is that he has a lot to say about Nietzsche.
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I've never abandoned the novel.
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We score with the best of them. If we concentrate on defense like we do on offense, then we'll win a lot more ballgames.
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One principle problem of educating software engineers is that they will not use a new method until they believe it works and, more importantly, that they will not believe the method will work until they see it for themselves.
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Theater is my temple and my religion and my act of faith. Strangers sit in a room together and believe together.
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Translation is an act of recreation.
