Gene Luen Yang Quotes

In my research, I learned that the Boxers' kung fu wasn't all that formalized. The vast majority of them didn't belong to some age-old martial arts tradition. They were basically poor, starving teenagers doing the best they could to figure out how to fight, relying more on their mystical beliefs than formal training.

Gene Luen Yang

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I must repeat what I asserted formerly, that unless some happy expedient can be fallen upon to induce the seamen to enter into the service for a longer term than twelve months, it will never be possible to bring them under proper subordination; and subordination is as necessary, nay, far more so in the fleet than in the army.

John Paul Jones

ServiceHappyArmyPossibleNever

As director of CIA, I was responsible for everything done in the agency's name, and it didn't matter whether that was done by an agency employee, a government contractor, a liaison service on our behalf, or a source on our behalf.

Michael Hayden

ServiceGovernmentNameDoneMatter

I like the old '90s music.

Michael B. Jordan

MusicOldLike

The hierarchy is set out for me. The first priority is piano. I have to be 101 percent prepared. I find that at other times of the day, if the creative juices are working, I might want to write or compose.

Stephen Hough

DayCreativeMeFindWantFirst

Lyrical poets have to be in touch with visceral experience. I've always tried to avoid virtual experiences. That's emerging in my fiction.

Steven Heighton

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A small company like Nichia should do niche products.

Shuji Nakamura

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I think technology has advanced so far now that there are some cameras on the market that give film a run for its money. It's all about flexibility in capturing images, and digital or film, it doesn't matter to me.

Roger Deakins

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I've taken a stand against religion for as long I've been able to write and think.

Roy Harper

ReligionThinkStandLongWrite

I loved Westerns for different reasons as an adult. It is not only our only native brand of storytelling - the only one that's not influenced by Europeans and not something that's done better by the French - but I also love the sensuality of the Western. The sights, sounds, and smell of a Western are very exciting.

Mary Steenburgen

LoveBrandLovedBetterDoneSmell

Over most of history, threats have come from nature - disease, earthquakes, floods, and so forth. But the worst now come from us. We've entered a geological era called the anthropocene. This started, perhaps, with the invention of thermonuclear weapons.

Martin Rees

NatureHistoryNowWorstInvention

If I'm going away for longer than a week I take a suitcase and check it in but I'm good at packing light and quick - years of modelling, travelling and living out of a suitcase has trained me well.

Lisa Snowdon

GoodLightMeWeekLivingQuick

Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books.

David Strathairn

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