Gene Luen Yang Quotes

I think, pretty much like everyone around my age, I grew up playing those classic video games. I wouldn't say I was addicted to them, but I definitely liked them.

Gene Luen Yang

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

AgeVideo GamesThinkSayGamesUp

There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.

John Millington Synge

LanguageIrishSaint Patrick's Day

I'm always happy to blow up any misconceptions that people have about stage school cos everyone thinks it's really nasty there but it's not.

Amy Winehouse

SchoolHappyPeopleAlwaysStageUp

Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.

Sophocles

BestPastBorn

Sight gags had to be planned; they required timing and mechanics. Occasionally, spontaneity would arise in the shooting of the scenes.

Stan Laurel

TimingSightShootingPlannedWould

Money is a very important tool to make a big difference in people's life. It is positive or negative depending on the values.

Shiv Khera

LifePositiveMoneyPeopleNegative

Everybody is welcome to come to dinner, but there's going to be the adult table and the kids' table. Whiny people who want to throw food and make noise and interrupt and be rude and act like children, they can sit at the kids' table.

Matt Bevin

ChildrenFoodWelcomePeopleDinner

Truth is much stranger than fiction and, often, much more powerful.

Mira Nair

TruthTruth IsPowerfulMoreFiction

My dad was the way he was, but he also gave me a motto: never say die. Just to keep pushing and pushing, fighting until the end. He put it in my head that you're always going to fight, and you're always going to beat them.

Jason Day

MottoFightMeEndFightingDie

I've been lucky enough - well, maybe unlucky enough - to have had a lot of friends who have had their ups and downs. And for an actor, that's good. Life experience in any regard is good. So I've seen a lot and I've had my own experiences.

Chris Evans

LifeGoodExperienceUps And Downs

Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.

Christopher Lasch

TodayOvercomeOrderSocialAgainst

We've been working with Paul Bettner and the Playful team since the beginning of Oculus. Paul was one of, I think, seven $5,000 Kickstarter backers.

Brendan Iribe

BeginningTeamThinkPlayfulWorking

I don't prepare for my roles. I don't watch movies to get inspired. I don't dig deep. I'll never be that type of actor, and I doubt that I ever will be.

Bow Wow

DeepDoubtMoviesActorWillNever

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