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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The thing I'm going through is probably like the same thing that Little Richard and all these other artists go through, that I hear about them, saying, 'Oh damn, you ain't gonna give me nothing till I die,' ... I feel like I'm one of those type of great people that just going to have to wait till it's all over with for people to really sit around and talk about it.
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I presumed to fix my look on the eternal light so long that I consumed my sight thereon.
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The trouble with Douglas Fairbanks Jr. is that he likes everything he sees and he sees everything.
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'Saving Grace' was a full stretch-out - literally, physically, spiritually, psychologically. And I needed to take a year-and-a-half off when it was over.
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It's good to be sexy, but when that's all they can see - no.
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Translation is an act of recreation.
