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Gene Luen Yang Quotes

Creativity requires input, and that's what research is. You're gathering material with which to build.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: chinese
Birth: August 9, 1973

Topics

Creativity Research You Build Input

These days I can really get the strings to snap if I want.

I Can Want Days Strings Get Really

I don't think anyone doubts my motives, really. I do what I do and it's not very complicated. Of course, you might hate the music that I make, but I don't think people feel threatened by me just getting on with what I'm up to.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Music Hate People Me Think You

Film, for me, is in two stages. One is when I write the script more or less on my own - that's the nice bit. And then comes for me the unpleasant bit when they all go off, 100 people - actors and camera people and film and sound - and I stay away. When they go into the editing room, I come in again, and that's the bit I like.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

People Me Camera Go Nice Editing

Before Newfoundland joined Canada in 1949, there was the same sort of talk of young men sacrificing their lives so that a country might grow - that somehow it had been a great nation-building success for Newfoundland.

Success Great Men Grow Canada Young

Cancer affects so many people, and even if it hasn't affected someone in your family then you know someone who has had it.

Family People Someone You Know Your

Librarians in America do something like a couple of billion dollars worth of book business every year.

Business Book America Year Worth

I thought I was going to be a Spur.

Thought Going Spur

When people are performing in a musical, everybody is intuitively drawn to the right pitch. You don't want to be too broad that people can't relate to it, so it has to have some grounding in the real world.

People World You Want Right Real

In Mexico, the perception of power is power.

Power Perception Mexico

Every year on my birthday, I start a new playlist titled after my current age so I can keep track of my favorite songs of the year as a sort of musical diary because I am a teenage girl.

Birthday Girl Age I Am Start Year

I was very shy. It was kind of scary to meet new people.

People New Kind Meet New People Shy

Sometimes, I had very little - if any - idea for whom I was really working: at the end of the day, who reaped the profits? Was it a privately controlled German foundation or a global array of stockholders? A middle-class guy on the Upper West Side or Rupert Murdoch? Were we pursuing mere profit, or self-perpetuation, or something bigger?

Day Foundation End Of The Day End

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