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We have to allow ourselves the freedom to make mistakes, including cultural mistakes, in our first drafts. I believe it's okay to get cultural details wrong in your first draft. It's okay if stereotypes emerge. It just means that your experience is limited, that you're human.

~Gene Luen Yang

Topics: Allow Believe Cultural Details Draft Drafts Emerge Experience First Freedom Get Human Including Just Limited Make Means Mistakes Okay Our Ourselves Stereotypes Wrong You Your I Believe

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My experience of Chinese culture is indirect, through echoes. When I approach the cashier at my local Chinese supermarket, they switch to English before I've even said a word. They somehow know that I'm not quite Chinese enough.

~Gene Luen Yang

Topics: Approach Before Chinese Chinese Culture Culture Echoes English Enough Even Experience Indirect Know Local Quite Said Somehow Supermarket Switch Through Word

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My past is my wisdom to use today... my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.

~Gene Oliver

Topics: Because Experience Future Life Past Present Resides Today Use Where Wisdom

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If you are a Rothschild, a Rosenwald, a Gimbel, or even a Waldbaum, growing up Jewish can be a rich experience. For the rest of us, it could be just so-so.

~Gene Saks

Topics: Could Even Experience Growing Growing Up Jewish Just Rest Rich Up Us You

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Never negotiate with kids. They don't have life experience, and they don't have repercussions for bad decisions; they still get fed and housed.

~Gene Simmons

Topics: Bad Decisions Experience Fed Get Kids Life Life Experience Negotiate Never Repercussions Still

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Going to a movie is a two-hour experience; at $7.50 for a ticket, you are valuing your time at far less than the minimum wage. If you don't understand the film, don't leave. If you understand it all too well and hate it, get out of your seat and walk up the aisle. You will feel empowered.

~Gene Siskel

Topics: Aisle Empowered Experience Far Far Less Feel Film Get Going Hate Leave Less Minimum Minimum Wage Movie Out Seat Than Ticket Time Too Understand Up Wage Walk Well Will You Your

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I don't think anyone is more intrinsically holy. People experience God in many ways; and it seems to me that God does what the rest of us do: He chooses the means that best gets His message across.

~Gene Wolfe

Topics: Across Anyone Best Chooses Does Experience Gets God He His Holy Many Me Means Message More People Rest Seems Think Us Ways

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My whole life experience feeds into my writing. I think that must be true for every writer. Clearly the Army and combat were major influences; just the same, you need to understand that many of the writers we have now couldn't load a revolver.

~Gene Wolfe

Topics: Army Be True Clearly Combat Every Experience Feeds Influences Just Life Life Experience Load Major Many Must Need Now Same Think True Understand Were Whole Writer Writers Writing You I Think

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I love the possibility that anything can happen in any moment with acting. That you have the opportunity to experience lives and adventures that you may not have otherwise.

~Genevieve Padalecki

Topics: Acting Adventures Any Anything Experience Happen Lives Love May Moment Opportunity Otherwise Possibility You I Love

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Earnest people are always a bit on the thick side in my experience.

~Geoff Dyer

Topics: Always Bit Earnest Experience People Side Thick

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