Ken Liu Quotes

Researching real history has taught me to be bolder and more imaginative in building fantasy worlds and writing fantasy characters, to seek out the margins of history and the forgotten tales that illuminate the whole, complex truth of our flawed yet wondrous nature as a species.

Ken Liu

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Like I always say, it's not how many great plays you make; it's how few bad ones you make. I know fans, and even some losing coaches, are enamored with long pass completions or the great run plays, but that doesn't offset the interception or the fumble.

Jimmy Johnson

GreatLosingLongYouBadRun

Nothing has caused the human race so much trouble as intelligence.

John Michael Hayes

IntelligenceTroubleNothingRace

I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.

Ann Richards

LifeStrongYouLookBackFeelings

Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.

Stephen Sondheim

ArtChaosOutOrderBringAttempt

I've always been a person afraid of the dark. I was taught that when you have complete darkness, that's when spirits walk. In our house when I was growing up, all the doors were always cracked a little bit at night so you could get light into the room.

Tony Dorsett

LightWalkDarknessGrowing UpNight

The biggest attraction with wearing seersucker has to be its rumpled look. This is because seersucker has a lack of inherent structure.

Roger Stone

LookStructureBecauseAttraction

I have had a lot of blessed, interesting things happen to me and have bumped up against some amazing people.

Rob Lowe

PeopleAmazingMeBlessedHappenUp

What makes me angry is when people know what is right but have, over the years, attuned themselves to the fact that what they're doing, stealing money from government, is acceptable.

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

MoneyGovernmentAngryPeopleMe

I have in the past overly trusted people and was, in turn, let down by some. Since then, I have learned the difference between putting faith into people and blindly trusting them.

Do Won Chang

FaithPastPeopleDownTurnBlindly

It's a real primal thing, watching someone get hurt. It's funny and accessible.

Johnny Knoxville

FunnyHurtSomeoneWatchingReal

I think the theater is basically the boot camp for the actor. If you can survive the rigors of an eight-show-a-week schedule and be at your best all the time, you can handle virtually everything because no other craft requires you to get it right every single time.

Corey Reynolds

TimeBestSurviveThinkYouActor

I wanted to make a film about stupid people that was very vulgar and deeply stupid. From that moment on I can hardly be reproached for making a film that is about stupid people.

Claude Chabrol

MomentPeopleStupidI CanFilm

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