Marjorie Liu Quotes

But I love the idea - whether it's in my work or where I live - exploring new frontier, and I like putting myself in strange places and trying to survive and figure things out and gather up an infrastructure. I like knowing that I could figure out a way to live anywhere.

But I've had to act and not depend on my voice so much.

You have to empower your sales staff to use their judgment and go beyond the standards set down on paper and by the computer.

Coach Saban's a great coach; he does it his way, and I have to do it my way. I have to cut my own cloth.

I didn't have parents, so I lived in people's homes... And because I grew up with no parental role models, I learned to become my own friend, eventually my own father and my own mother.

I always knew that I would have to make it on my own somehow.

When I first came out, I was a film student, and my mom sewed clothes. I was already doing a million things then, whatever it took to survive. If I had to braid someone's hair to get one pound for my lunch money, that's what I did.

Typically in 'Game of Thrones,' people who are honest and just and do things for the right reasons tend not to survive.

Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.

My childhood was bittersweet in many ways. We moved around a lot. By the time I was 10, I had travelled thousands of miles, often on my own. My parents were like my friends, so it felt like I didn't really have parents at all. But in a crazy way that was very liberating. It forced me to be independent, maybe a leader, and certainly a survivor.

Obey the principles without being bound by them.

When you are facing the wilderness on your own, you have a totally different attitude to someone who works in government or who has a monthly cheque.

I never took a grant or borrowed a penny from anybody. It was partially because I didn't really know how to do that, but secondly, my pride never would have allowed me to. In the beginning it was about doing it the right way, on the merits of the music.

You win any which way you can. You do what you have to do to get by. That's the way it works in any job.

If you always have a crutch, you don't learn anything.

I'm a good acting partner for me... when I don't have anyone else, I do really well!

I try to live my life, do what I want, and just let everything else follow along.

I think as a guy you need a little bit to be on your own from early on, to start to live your own life, and try to understand what is going on around you, you have to be able to survive.

There is, indeed, no single quality of the cat that man could not emulate to his advantage.

If there are going to be people out there making war on other people, don't you think it's a good idea for some of those people to at least follow a code of ethics? Not 'honor' but something you can pin down and be sure of, something with the same rules for everybody.

I'll dispose of my teeth as I see fit, and after they've gone, I'll get along. I started off living on gruel, and by God, I can always go back to it again.

You have to be self-reliant and strong to survive in this town. Otherwise you will be destroyed.

You can sometimes learn more working with less talented people, because you learn to survive.

Because I was poor I had one special advantage. When you are poor, and basic survival is your concern, you have no alternative but to be an entrepreneur. You must take action to survive just as you must take action to seize an opportunity.

We were trained to live by our wits, in any circumstance.