Gene Luen Yang Quotes

When I got the job with 'Superman,' it felt like somebody threw me into the ocean. I was just trying to figure it out, to figure out how to tread water. Lucky for me, I'm part of a great team.

Gene Luen Yang

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I'm a big diver. I like to dive when I travel, and my last dive was in the Galapagos. I used to live in San Francisco and I would dive all the time in Monterey.

Jim Toomey

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Remember Graham Green's dictum that childhood is the bank balance of the writer? I think that all writers feel alienated. Most of us go back to an alienated childhood in some way or another. I know that I do.

John le Carre

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I have a really hard time meeting people, so I wanted to take classes to get out of my social shell. Eventually, I opened up and realized, 'Wow, I really enjoy this.'

Trevor Donovan

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To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy - and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.

Robert A. Heinlein

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We left Egypt when I was seven, and we didn't return until I was 21. My teen years were divided between the United Kingdom and Saudi Arabia. Up until we left the U.K., it was like your regular teenage years. The one thing I remember is that I couldn't date. That was one thing my parents made very clear.

Mona Eltahawy

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I don't have anything to fix! I don't smoke, I don't drink, and I don't eat carbs. My life is just great now. Normal. Vanilla.

Jason Bateman

LifeGreatMy LifeSmokeNowFix

The ad revenues still go up because nothing dependably delivers the eyeballs that successful series do.

Dick Wolf

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If I wanted, I could have ruled half of Bombay.

Dev Anand

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Personality for me is the strongest statement.

Chiara Ferragni

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New York is our home.

Christo

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I love hanging out with my friends; I love to run. I box. I'm a huge movie buff.

Brittany Snow

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I have done everything in my life very normally. And marriage is definitely there on my agendas in life. But I don't know when will it happen.

Anushka Sharma

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