Gene Luen Yang Quotes

I think every time you work with another collaborator, there's an adjustment process where you figure out the other person's strengths, and that has definitely happened for me.

Gene Luen Yang

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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That's what we need nowadays, is more children that have goals other than being a sports figure or some kind of celebrity.

Joe Nichols

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With 'Sweetback,' I just put it together a little bit at a time. I didn't do it on anybody's grant. I did it like any other young executive - by cheating and stealing!

Melvin Van Peebles

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One of the things that really bothers me is that Americans don't have any sense of history. The majority of Americans don't have any idea of where we've come from, so they naturally succumb to the kind of cliche version that Ronald Reagan represented.

Robert K. Massie

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As would-be songwriters, our interest was in black music and black music only. We wanted to write songs for black voices.

Mike Stoller

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You look at the large problems that we face - that would be overpopulation, water shortages, global warming and AIDS, I suppose - all of that needs international cooperation to be solved.

Molly Ivins

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God's commandments are not given to limit or punish us.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

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This has been on the schedule for a long time. You don't get President Clinton on a 24-hour notice.

Jon Corzine

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I started rockin' the BowTie when I was a rookie with the New York Giants.

Dhani Jones

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My representation overseas can't stand me doing theatre because it takes me out of action. But it's what I want to do. If it means passing up other possibilities, them's the breaks.

David Wenham

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I will always do what's best for the football team.

Brock Osweiler

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Not eating breakfast is the worst thing you can do, that's really the take-home message for teenage girls.

Bruce Barton

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I suspect if people live a lot longer they would be retired for a somewhat longer period of time. Just the financial planning takes on a very different character.

Peter Thiel

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