Gene Luen Yang Quotes

This is a profession for me, but I started off as a self-publisher working on my own schedule and my own stuff before moving on to graphic novels with First Second Books, where there was definitely a schedule, but it was very different from monthly comics.

Gene Luen Yang

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Moving OnMeMovingMy OwnSchedule

I've never stared out at the ocean while I've made a record before - that enhances things in a strange way.

Jim James

OceanStrangeWayNeverOutThings

Well, I'm not trying to get rid of the unions, but I am saying that they appear to be an antiquated concept in today's economy.

Jim DeMint

SayingThinkCarryOnlyWhoI Think

Don't write us off. Nobody thought we'd win the World Series in 2005, but we did. There are years when we think we're great, and we're bad. I mean, the funny thing about this game is that you can't figure it out.

Jerry Reinsdorf

FunnyGreatWinWorldGameThink

The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.

Max Eastman

ArtistCherishConsciousnessFunction

Sometimes you want to skate along or just get by or fly under the radar, but sometimes you have to stand up and let your voice be heard and give it your best and give it your all. As a mother of young children, that's something I've tried to emphasize and highlight for them.

Angela Bassett

MotherChildrenBestFlyStand Up

I think when war becomes your life, I think it's very difficult to have the proper perspective to be able to create a fully balanced policy.

Michael Hastings

LifePerspectiveWarThinkCreate

I write the music, produce it and the band plays within the parameters that I set.

Sting

MusicBandWriteWithinSetI Write

No matter what I do, how much money I make, where I live, or what kind of car I drive, the stuff I skateboard on is the same stuff that every other kid in L.A., every kid in the country, everybody in the world is skateboarding on.

Rob Dyrdek

LiveCarMoneyWorldDriveCountry

We are people, individuals comprising a variety of sexes, races, shifting sexualities and all the rest of it. Every convention that tries to reinforce this difference is a step back. Notions of gender pointlessly separate men from women, but also mothers from daughters and fathers from sons.

Robert Webb

WomenMenStepPeopleRestGender

You can't go to medical school and come out and be like, 'I'm going to be a dog catcher.' That would be so pointless.

Mike Birbiglia

DogMedicalSchoolYouGoOut

For me personally it is because I get an awful amount of success and I don't think I deserve it and then I want to sabotage it.

Michael Parkinson

SuccessMeThinkWantDeserveGet

I definitely want to have a career in music.

Jonah Marais

MusicCareerWantDefinitely

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