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Ken Liu Quotes

I think that what's unique about sci-fi - at least from the view of a lot of Chinese writers - is that sci-fi is least-rooted in the particular culture that they're writing from.

Ken Liu

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: 1976

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I love doing this day, and George was exactly as he's always been, very calm and very gentle, and if I'm in the final cut in the summer theater, I'll be thrilled. If I'm not, well that's the way things go.

Jeremy Bulloch

Love Day Calm Doing Summer Go

Although finding fruit flies in your wine or beer can be a bit annoying, I hope people will pause to admire the tenacity of these clever little creatures. They are really just hungry animals looking for something to eat, and have no intention of ruining your happy hour.

Michael Dickinson

Hope Beer Happy People Fruit Wine

Princeton University's campus environment presents unique challenges and opportunities for architecture to act as a social condenser.

Steven Holl

Architecture Challenges Opportunities

When you're not working is when you have to stay positive and remind yourself that you're talented.

Rutina Wesley

Positive Yourself You Stay Working

The effort required by your endeavor now is not as hard as dealing with your regret later.

Mike Hawkins

Effort Regret Now Hard Endeavor

I'm a huge Kentucky fan. So when there was a chance to do the John Wall dance, I went into character.

Josh Hopkins

Character Dance Chance Wall Kentucky

I'm too busy thinking what I'm going to say next to remember what I've said, but my staff tells me I'm sometimes funny. Not always on purpose, though.

Jared Polis

Funny Purpose Me Busy Thinking Said

We've got to work to save our children and do it with full respect for the fact that if we do not, no one else is going to do it.

Dorothy Height

Work Children Respect Got Going Our

I think one of the things about listening is that it's always at its most powerful when it's present, when it's right here, when it's right now. And that's a lesson about improv that I think just made me a much more social person.

Chris Gethard

Me Listening Think Present Powerful

The challenge of writing books for teenagers is walking the fine line between truth and what the publishers, parents, and the more conservative librarians want to hear.

Annette Curtis Klause

Truth Challenge Parents Writing Want

Mothering has been the richest experience of my life, but I am still opposed to Mother's Day. It perpetuates the dangerous idea that all parents are somehow superior to non-parents.

Anne Lamott

Life Mother Experience Day Parents

I used to be really scared to voice my opinion, whether it was with the other girls or just about an outfit I didn't like. I kept worrying what other people would think of me if they didn't agree. But I learned that I was just hurting myself.

Ally Brooke

Myself People Me Opinion Think Used