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Gene Luen Yang Quotes

In traditional Asian arts, the word and the picture always sit next to each other. I have an aunt, a Chinese brush painter, who told me that when you do a Chinese brush painting, you have to pair the image up with some poetry.

Gene Luen Yang

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Poetry Me Painting Picture You Aunt

My first business deal was with my mother. I invested in chickens. I sold the eggs to my mother.

Joel McCrea

Mother Business First Chickens Eggs

You have to do stand-up quite a long time before you learn how to do it well. It was probably years before I was confident enough in stand-up that I was able to talk about the things I wanted to talk about, the way I wanted to talk about them.

John Oliver

Time Confident Learn Enough You Way

I think today that it is essential that the Rwandan tribunal continues to prosecute efficiently. And if the U.N. fails to do that, it is sending entirely the wrong message to people who are in the position to complete these atrocities again.

Tony Greig

Today People Think Wrong Position

When the media ask George W. Bush a question, he answers, 'Can I use a lifeline?'

Robin Williams

Media Question Ask Answers He Use

I used to go to sports camp every summer. I'd make a lot of new friends, and it was all athletic. It was basically a place for parents to send their kids to run out all their summer energy for two weeks.

Matt Bomer

Sports Parents Energy Friends Place

The O.M.B. director puts together the budget. It handles every executive order. It is the clearing house for every single federal regulation. It has input into all the management of all of the federal agencies... It is involved with everything. And I thought, 'That's where I want to be.'

Mick Mulvaney

Together Management Thought House

I rented a place that I could have dogs - not in my house. I rented a big place. And I was able to have the SPCA every end of the week bring many, many dogs to me. They all were in nice places, clean, everything was fine. I took good care of them. And so many people called.

Doris Day

Good People Me Care End Week

It is all nonsense, to be sure; and so much the greater nonsense inasmuch as the true interpretation of many dreams - not by any means of all dreams - moves, it may be said, in the opposite direction to the method of psycho-analysis.

Arthur Machen

Dreams Direction Said True Nonsense

I don't have this feeling that 70 is really old.

Alice Walker

Feeling Old Really

There are a million ways of arriving at a performance, any number of them solid.

Ali Farahnakian

Performance Solid Arriving Million

I've made millions of dollars with the body I have, so where's the pain in that?

Tyra Banks

Pain Body Made Dollars Millions

I find performing very difficult. It's difficult to be a good actor. I get very nervous, even though it sounds disingenuous, because you could legitimately go, 'Well, why do it?'

Richard Ayoade

Good You Find Go Nervous Why