Ken Liu Quotes

Short fiction encourages experimentation, and it's fun to play with form and try experiments that may or may not work out.

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• If you think Wall Street has a short memory, you're dead wrong. No, the folks who work on Wall Street, regulate Wall Street - and, above all, invest in its wares, notably its hedge funds - don't have a bad memory. They don't have any memory at all.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Work
  • Bad
  • Wall

• I don't know if it has set in or not. Honestly, it's crazy. It's such an amazing honor. I remember thinking back to being in my room waiting for the call to see if I got the part. It's like winning the lottery. I'm proud to be a member of such an amazing cast - that's the best award of all.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Amazing

• I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • Want
  • Ideas
  • Own

• One of the big things I've learned is that there's an advantage to regular low-intensity activity.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Things
  • Big
  • Activity

• I'm always looking for that sense of fun and adventure and even unlikeability. I don't want to be the obvious leading lady. I have the most fun playing these girls who are a little damaged and maybe a little insecure and trying to overcompensate for it.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Trying
  • Fun
  • Adventure

• White actors still get way more money in Hollywood. It's been that way for a very long time. I hope it'll change, but it's a matter of forcing that change.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Time
  • Long
  • Money

• And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Business
  • Create
  • Brand

• When I was a kid, I was super shy.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Kid
  • Shy
  • Super

• I've already got notebooks full of ideas for new music, so I'm gonna kind of nurture that just like I do all of my ideas and perfect it until it's ready and then I'll just let it go.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Music
  • Ideas
  • Nurture

• Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.

  

  Karl Shapiro
  • Speak
  • Name
  • Grass

• No matter where you are from, no matter what your background is, no matter what your socioeconomic status is, every person can achieve his or her dreams.

  

  Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
  • Dreams
  • Achieve
  • Her

• The word 'revolution' first brings to mind violent upheavals in the state, but ideas of revolution in science, and of political revolution, are almost coeval. The word once meant only a revolving, a circular return to an origin, as when we speak of revolutions per minute or the revolution of the planets about the sun.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Mind
  • Political
  • Science

• Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Hope
  • Hook
  • Bait

• I love my shape because I work really hard at it. I honor my body by working out and seeing what it can do.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Work
  • Body
  • Honor

• Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • World
  • Trying
  • Society

• My first gig was a Corn Pops commercial. I did the first Vanilla Coke campaign. A Juicy Fruit commercial paid my bills for years.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Years
  • First
  • Fruit

• I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.

  

  Earl Scruggs
  • Think
  • You
  • Enough

• Romy and I, we're learning how to share the xx with people who aren't in the xx.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • People
  • Learning
  • Share

• It was never physically dangerous except when I nearly fell off a horse, but it was physically arduous - especially when you were working late at night.

  

  Derek Jacobi
  • Night
  • Horse

• When I was on dialysis, I willed myself to do 'On the Town.' It accesses my most childlike, joyful love of theater.

  

  George C. Wolfe

• I have a family I love. They tend to say, 'Great job!' Or 'You work really hard! Good for you!' Or 'You look nice today!' Or 'Don't be ridiculous, order the fries!' Or 'You are hilarious.' That's all the family I need.

  

  Sia LSD
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• People are roasting each other at parties, at work events, around the fire. It's so fun. People are busting each other's chops, and it's a sign of affection, truly. It's a true test of love and friendship: can you make a man laugh at himself? So what makes a good burn? Go after targets you love and respect. And hit 'em hard.

  

  Jeff Ross
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• I think theatre helped, only because it was acting experience. I got to work with a lot of directors.

  

  James Denton
  • Work
  • Experience
  • Theatre

• Short fiction encourages experimentation, and it's fun to play with form and try experiments that may or may not work out.

  

  Ken Liu
  • Work
  • May
  • Fun