Alan Yang Quotes

I'm a huge believer in story being this invisible scaffolding that no one ever recognizes or realizes is actually making the audience engaged in what's going on. There is no formula for it.

Alan Yang

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My art flatters nobody by imitation; it courts nobody by smoothness, tickles nobody by petiteness... there is no finish in nature.

John Constable

NatureArtNobodyFinishImitation

I used to judge the quality of music by whether I could make a 90-minute cassette and not repeat any artists.

John Hughes

MusicQualityJudgeRepeatArtists

I'm my biggest problem; I'm the thing that stops me most from doing what I need to do to be successful or to achieve success in whatever area of life.

Andy Mineo

LifeSuccessMeProblemDoingNeed

Authors will make far more on those ebooks through direct sales than publishers are offering. There is no incentive for authors to sell those rights to traditional publishers which means, in the fairly short term, publishers run out of material to sell.

Michael A. Stackpole

ShortRunWillMoreSalesOut

Obviously I read the newspaper sometimes, or I look on the Internet. When you go out in public, you hear things, and people ask you questions, and that's part of the game.

Johnathan Joseph

PeopleGameInternetQuestionsLook

I love Mario Kart.

Alyssa Sutherland

LoveMarioI Love

I'm becoming more squeamish. I didn't use to be - nine years of 'Silent Witness' prepared me for most things one will have the misfortune to see in life. Before, I'd be wading up to my neck in gore, but now I tend to look away.

Amanda Burton

LifeMeLookNowSilentWill

Something inside of me just said 'Hey, wait a minute, I want to beat him,' and I just took off.

Steve Prefontaine

MeWaitSaidWantInsideBeat

The immigrant experience in 'Ilustrado' was only a small part of what I intended to be a broader look at the Filipino experience, even if that broader look was itself merely a specific perspective.

Miguel Syjuco

PerspectiveExperienceSmallLook

Anyone who takes the Bible seriously agrees that God hates suffering. Jesus spent most of his time relieving it. But when being healed becomes the only goal - 'I'm not letting go until I get what I want' - it's a problem.

Joni Eareckson Tada

GodTimeSufferingBibleProblemGo

Economic theory dictates that the value of a company is basically the present value of its future profits. To estimate Facebook's value through its future profits, we need to have a view on its user growth and how this will evolve in the next 10 to 50 years.

Didier Sornette

GrowthFutureValuePresentView

To be told you've won a MacArthur fellowship is very flattering and gratifying personally.

David Simon

YouFellowshipWonVeryPersonally

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