Ken Liu Quotes

My wife, Lisa, and I both grew up on wuxia - Chinese historical romances. They're kind of analogous to Western epics. They're based on history, just like 'the Iliad' and 'the Odyssey' are based on history, but they're romanticized, and a lot of fantasy elements have been added.

Ken Liu

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I think each one of us has committed to improving.

Jimmy Haynes

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I have like fifteen televisions in my house.

Jimmy Kimmel

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For me, one of my personal inspirations was designers in the mid-20th century named Charles and Ray Eames.

Joe Gebbia

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I think that's an incredible thing that we can do as actors - to feel empathy toward someone that you may otherwise detest, you know?

Jennifer Jason Leigh

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As an actor, I'm allowed - encouraged! - to explore emotions that have been basically unacceptable in my life. I have a huge well of emotional stuff, and once I give myself permission as an actor, it all comes to the surface. But I'll be damned if I can give myself permission to bring it out as a man.

Andre Braugher

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The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.

John Locke

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Making music has gotten easier; selling it has gotten harder. Making music has been democratized, but the market is in the hands of fascists.

Stewart Copeland

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Embrace the faff. Stare out of the window. Bend paperclips. Stand in the middle of the room trying to remember what you came downstairs for. Pace. Drum your fingertips. Move papers around. Hum. Look at the garden.

Tom Hodgkinson

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I don't read many business books. I read good fiction. Business is about people, so my favorite business books are anything by Dickens.

Tom Peters

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Words are mere shadows cast by ideas. But the ideas they represent are real.

Roy H. Williams

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I think if I tried very hard, I could do a novel or a play, a poem. I could possibly paint a picture, but I know I can't write music. And still, it is the most accessible of all arts, as you know when you hear a tune.

Milos Forman

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I'm really grateful for 'Game of Thrones'. It's something wonderful to happen to an actress of my age, and Dubrovnik is astonishingly beautiful.

Diana Rigg

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