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.
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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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.
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I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.
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One of the big things I've learned is that there's an advantage to regular low-intensity activity.
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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.
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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.
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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
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When I was a kid, I was super shy.
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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.
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Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.
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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.
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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.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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I love my shape because I work really hard at it. I honor my body by working out and seeing what it can do.
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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.
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My first gig was a Corn Pops commercial. I did the first Vanilla Coke campaign. A Juicy Fruit commercial paid my bills for years.
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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Romy and I, we're learning how to share the xx with people who aren't in the xx.
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I'm about caring, I'm about people, and I'm about entertaining people. I'm a family man. A husband. A father. I've been a lot of other things over the years, which we don't really want to talk about.
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Embrace your fire - even in hard times. A down economy can actually be a great time to start a business.
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Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.
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The days are over when technology can be advanced in laboratories by individual scientists alone. Now you need an army of lawyers to negotiate the hazardous terrain of interlocking patents. Unless we find a solution to the problem of interlocking patents, the patent system may actually impede the very innovation it was designed to encourage.
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God knows what you've been doing, everything you've been doing. You may fool me, but you can't fool God!
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Short fiction encourages experimentation, and it's fun to play with form and try experiments that may or may not work out.
