Gene Luen Yang Quotes

There's bleeding between age groups in terms of reading material, and there's bleeding between media. So there are books that are clearly comics and books that are prose, and then there are these books that are kind of in-between.

Gene Luen Yang

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I have had a lifelong phobia of snakes.

Jessica Savitch

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When you have somebody in a position of power show interest in you after you've kind of been down and out, that's a big boost.

Matt Lauer

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That movie, 'Airplane!,' what a landmark film it was. It's a great, great movie.

Jeff Bridges

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For me, art really starts with acceptance, self trust. Wherever you come to with art, it's perfect. You don't have to come with anything. What you bring to something is the art. That's where it's found. It's found within you.

Jeff Koons

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I usually plan to read a book for a half-hour before bed, but then I end up staying awake until 3 A.M. to finish it. Fortunately, my dog doesn't mind when I keep the bedside lamp on.

Amanda Hocking

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The first thing I ever got my hands on was Andy Griffith's 'What It Was, Was Football.' I was fascinated with the fact that every syllable made it funny, and I would laugh even though I didn't know what any of it meant.

Ron White

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You can do really slow movements with it, like zooming in for a minute and a half. The audience isn't aware that the camera has moved, but there's subconscious tension there.

Mike Figgis

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My first playpen was a cardboard box.

Michael Lee-Chin

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I write box notes for Kino International, which specializes in distributing foreign films.

Bruce Bennett

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I've always thought, and it gets tested at times, that I have a great faith in the fundamental goodness of human beings.

Bob Brown

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Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

Aristotle

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Over the course of the game, you can't let negativity get in your head. Any time a guy playing negative upon emotion, it's not going to be a great day.

Antonio Brown

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