Gene Luen Yang Quotes

Going from idea to production is a huge hurdle. It took me a while to overcome it. It's basically all about self discipline, right?

Gene Luen Yang

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

DisciplineMeSelfOvercomeRight

Making movies is really hard. It's a very complex process, with many, many variables.

Jeff Nichols

ProcessMoviesHardComplexMaking

I insist on doing all my own film stunts, although they are often worked out in advance by a stunt man who then advises me on the best and safest method of performing it.

Jean-Paul Belmondo

BestManMeDoingMy OwnOut

I love writing letters. In order to write a novel in first person, I think I needed an addressee.

Amity Gaige

LoveWritingThinkPersonLetters

While these attitudes are more visible when directed at government, there is ample evidence that many working people distrust their own union as much as they do the corporation they work for.

Robert Teeter

WorkGovernmentPeopleMoreEvidence

You know, from age 17 on, my paycheck was coming from cooking and working in kitchens.

Anthony Bourdain

AgeCookingYouKnowPaycheck

This sense of power is the highest and best of pleasures when the belief on which it is founded is a true belief, and has been fairly earned by investigation.

William Kingdon Clifford

PowerBestTrueBeliefInvestigation

Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge.

Philip Zimbardo

BehaviorPowerfulHuman BehaviorMore

'Luncheon of the Boating Party,' owned by The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., has served Americans as a symbol of France and French culture, both of which I love, and is as evocative and triumphant an image as that other emissary of France, the Statue of Liberty.

Susan Vreeland

LoveCulturePartyLibertyImage

'Modelland' has always been a part of my mind and my heart. I'm excited that you'll be able to read about this magical world that's been living in my dreams for so many years.

Tyra Banks

DreamsHeartMindWorldYouLiving

A man in a suit looking put together and dapper is very attractive, but I also kind of like the I-just-rolled-out-of-bed, a-little-bit-of-scruff, effortless, not-trying-hard-but-still-sexy guy. If a guy spends more time looking in the mirror than I do, that's problem!

Nina Dobrev

TimeMirrorTogetherManLooking

Death's a debt; his mandamus binds all alike- no bail, no demurrer.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

DeathDebtAlikeBailHisBinds

There was no model how to make a documentary production company work. I figured it out as I went along.

Morgan Neville

WorkCompanyOutProductionAlong

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