Gene Luen Yang Quotes

Writing for myself and writing for another artist are two very different experiences. When I handle both the story and the art, I have full control. I can endlessly tweak every word and every line.

Gene Luen Yang

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ArtMyselfWritingControlStory

Maybe it's just, I've always been to the less traveled places, in any topic, whether it's history, I always like to just choose the most obscure topic. And I don't know why I have that impulse. I can't really explain it but I've been doing that since I was a little kid.

Andrew Bird

HistoryDoingChooseTraveledKnow

If you think there is anything in theater that objectively exists without your point of view attached, you are wrong.

Anna D. Shapiro

ThinkViewYouPoint Of ViewWrong

I've never been good at making smart career decisions or doing the right strategic thing, and yet somehow it's all led me to exactly the kind of career that I would have dreamed of having - if only I'd been smart enough to dream something like that.

Michael Cerveris

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Protestantism came to America to make America Protestant. It was assumed that was to be done through faith in the reasonableness of the common man and the establishment of a democratic republic.

Stanley Hauerwas

FaithManAmericaDoneThrough

I'm not selling a dream; I'm not selling fame like it is some sort of fantastic thing.

Sia

DreamSellingFameLikeFantastic

I get offered work these days.

Sidney Poitier

WorkDaysGetOffered

I learned at a young age that we were going to have to be personable, going to have to be marketable, and going to have to be creative in order to have a race team.

Robby Gordon

AgeCreativeTeamYoungRaceGoing

Some of the young kids look for one hit to be a star; that what they're known for the rest of their life... I never wanted to be known as one thing; that is the reason I do classical theater, write, direct and the blessings God has given me... I want to share.

Ruben Santiago-Hudson

LifeGodMeRestBlessingsLook

I always look back to awards shows and think about being a kid watching them.

Luke Bryan

ThinkLookBackAwardsWatchingKid

Almost every person over 45, and definitely those who have ever smoked, should have a spirometry test.

Loni Anderson

PersonTestOverAlmostWhoShould

We have to rise above bad fortune. We have to be in the good and enjoy the good, study and work and adventure and friendship and community and love.

Joshua Prager

WorkFriendshipLoveGoodCommunity

We incorporate various electronic devices - the echo plugs and things like that. Actually, all we're trying to do is make that sound musical. As opposed to just making sounds, we do musical things with them.

Chico Hamilton

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