Ken Liu Quotes

Like pretty much every short story writer, I submitted to every market under the sun and hoped for the best. The rejection letters I've collected over the years can probably make a book of their own.

Ken Liu

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'The Best Man' was my first feature film, and I didn't want to be known as a director who only does romantic comedies.

Melissa De Sousa

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I grew up in Northern California - Marin County, Tiburon. And it's interesting. It's a very rich place, but a lot of the affluent people are - they're not as showy. So, like, they might have, like, a Saab or a Volvo. And then here comes my dad from Iran. He buys a Rolls-Royce.

Maz Jobrani

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I've always been interested in UFOs.

Steven Spielberg

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People comment on my pictures, 'Stay healthy.'

Simone Biles

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I made a film about a person living with a disability. Those kinds of films are often about the disability, not who a person is.

Roger Ross Williams

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In an emergency, you rarely get one consistent piece of advice. You usually have two or three people with two or three different ideas. So you want to have your own set of thoughts.

Rudy Giuliani

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I come from a violent background. So I became hard. I realised that I had made myself that way to deal with a feeling of abandonment and shame.

Mickey Rourke

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I have never understood that. I come from a place where the press makes or breaks an actor and it is more of a teamwork relationship.

Michelle Trachtenberg

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Strangely enough, among my dad's things, I found the diary of an ancestor who was born in 1797 and became a ventriloquist in London. That was quite chilling. It described exactly how I was as a child but 150 years earlier - doing voices, pretending to be a ventriloquist.

Christopher Guest

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Sometimes I yell, sometimes I raise my voice. I am trying to do it less, because it's not always attractive. It's not always the right thing to do.

Christine Quinn

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I've got more in common with a three-toed sloth than I have with Winston Churchill. There is no easy comparison with any modern politician. The more you read about him, the more completely amazed you are about what he did - his energy, his literary fecundity, his ability to work - just unbelievable energy.

Boris Johnson

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The revolution has been dubbed The Orange Revolution, orange being the campaign color of Viktor Yushchenko. The demonstrators say they are tired of living under a corrupt government.

Bob Schaffer

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