Gene Luen Yang Quotes

Dwayne McDuffie was one of my favorite writers. When I was growing up, he was one of the few African Americans working in American comics.

Gene Luen Yang

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I moved south when I was 11 years old, moved to England. I've lived in all kinds of places, all parts of England.

John Burnside

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McDonalds used to be my favorite place to eat, until my metabolism changed in my late 30s. Before that, I would have no hesitation about walking into McDonalds and getting two cheeseburgers and fries and enjoying every last bite.

Andy Cohen

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I'm not going to go mystery shopping in the NHS because we have a million people every day using it and rating its facilities.

Andrew Lansley

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So far as I am concerned, I think more of reasons than of reputations, more of principles than of persons, more of nature than of names, more of facts than of faiths.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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I don't remember threatening anybody, ever. I don't like threats. I don't respond well to them, so I don't give them. But I'm not a doormat. I try to meet the appropriate level of communications.

Roger Ailes

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There's a richness that reading gives you, an opportunity to probe more than any other medium I know of. Reading is about not being content with the surface.

Maryanne Wolf

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If a comparative-literature major had existed at Harvard College for undergraduates I would have surely gone in that direction.

Louis Begley

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I'm constantly exchanging ideas with new artists. Honestly, with Jay-Z, our only interaction was a brief hello after I signed.

Jay Park

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I speak French, and I grew up with French, so my English is Franglais.

Corneille Ewango

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I was into comics because these were my real male role models, even though at the time, I didn't know it.

Brian Michael Bendis

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If someone gives you so-called good advice, do the opposite; you can be sure it will be the right thing nine out of 10 times.

Anselm Feuerbach

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The future is green energy, sustainability, renewable energy.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

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