Gene Luen Yang Quotes

In the early '90s, I was finishing up my adolescence. I visited my local comic-book store on a weekly basis, and one week I found a book on the stands called 'Xombi,' published by Milestone Media.

Gene Luen Yang

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I'm not a boy now. I'm a man, I hope. I hope I've had my artistic bar mitzvah somewhere.

Jeremy Piven

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I really believed Obama when he spoke in 2008, but I remember watching his victory speech after this last election and it was the same speech. Exactly the same speech. I felt like he didn't even believe it anymore. He seemed to be tired of saying the same thing.

Andrew Dominik

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The fact that 'Honey, I'm Good' made such a splash and that people were catching it on radio, on Spotify, on Pandora, it's driving everybody to go hear the album.

Andy Grammer

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Actually, I only have a few friends in real life. And when I say friends, I'm referring to those people who I've known since the 1960s.

Jean Reno

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I dream for a living. Once a month the sky falls on my head, I come to, and I see another movie I want to make.

Steven Spielberg

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My experience of American politics is that people raise issues, and they get addressed in an effective but imperfect way. But that's sort of the American system: Mind the problem and worry it, and then we attack it with overwhelming power and put it away - and that's the end of that problem.

Tom Steyer

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Scarcely a day goes by without some claim that new technologies are fast writing newsprint's obituary.

Rupert Murdoch

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Anybody who is familiar with the historical data from the IRS knows that raising income tax rates will likely actually reduce federal revenues.

Mike Pence

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The type of producing that I did for many years involved working very closely with directors.

Michelle MacLaren

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I'm interested in villainy.

Jonathan Frid

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One of my grandfathers, actually, having gone out there as a minister, decided he would better serve the people as a doctor. So at a very late age - at the age of 38 in fact - he changed course and decided to become a doctor.

Colin Firth

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People resisted having weapons on airplanes, but I oversaw the federal air marshals. It's a deterrent. No one sees that weapon, but they are protected on that airplane, and it's a huge positive impact on safety.

Asa Hutchinson

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