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Shaun Tan Quotes

It's only a very small percentage of creative thinking that ends up connecting with a wider audience, and even then, any success is quite unpredictable.

Shaun Tan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: artist
Nationality: australian
Birth: 1974

Topics

Success Creative Small Thinking Up

Back in George W. Bush's second term, when diplomatic realism began to overtake foolish bellicosity, the president developed one of his patented nicknames for the two most powerful neoconservative journalists, William Kristol and Charles Krauthammer: he called them 'the Bomber Boys.'

Joe Klein

Powerful Back President Two Foolish

I totally agree with equal rights and women's causes, and most of my songs are woman-power, but I don't want to be labelled at 20 years old.

Meghan Trainor

Women Want Old Equal Years Rights

That's true but I think the contemporary problem that we are facing increasing numbers of black people and other people of color being thrown into a status that involves work in alternative economies and increasing numbers of people who are incarcerated.

Angela Davis

Work People Color Black Think True

Of course, I write crime stories, and I have to describe violence and the aftermath of violence.

Jeffery Deaver

Violence Crime Write Course Stories

My family is my life, and everything else comes second as far as what's important to me.

Michael Imperioli

Life Family Me My Life Important

I think I can work with any type of actor.

Ang Lee

Work Think I Can Actor I Think Type

My weight fluctuates. I have years where I wear a size 10, and years where I wear a size 4.

Tracee Ellis Ross

Years Size Wear Where Weight

My father said, 'Aren't you going to do anything to help people? We have a whole rack of relatives who are always breaking the law. At least help your relatives.' And so that's what I did.

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

Father People Law Help You Said

Egypt is practicing its very normal role on its soil and does not threaten anyone and there should not be any kind of international or regional concerns at all from the presence of Egyptian security forces.

Mohammed Morsi

Security Kind Soil Egypt Presence

I have a fear of being broke. That's what I have a fear of. I'm not kidding.

Loni Love

Fear Being Being Broke Broke Kidding

My last album as J. Tillman, 'Singing Ax,' that was really a premeditated death rattle of the aesthetic precedent I had set. I realized I wasn't creating spontaneously; I was enforcing all these parameters. I was too self-loathing or something, and there was this obvious dissonance between my conversational voice and creative voice.

Josh Tillman

Death Creative Singing Voice Obvious

The Left only worries about people who don't want to work; they could care less. They cater more to people who are here illegally, and they care more about the feelings of countries that would love to see us wiped off the face of the Earth than they do hard-working Americans. It's ridiculous.

Donald Trump, Jr.

Work Love People Face Care Earth