Celeste Ng Quotes

I am a first-generation Chinese-American; my husband is white. We have a little boy, so I think a lot about what it's like when people from different cultures and backgrounds start families, and how the world sees them. Most of my friends are in interracial relationships, and I just wonder what the world is going to look like for their children.

Celeste Ng

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ChildrenI AmPeopleWorldStart

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.

Jim Morrison

FreedomRealityMaskFeelYouKind

I haven't had a lot of celebrities around me growing up.

Amber Tamblyn

MeGrowing UpGrowingUpAroundHad

It's easy to measure success by the number of dollars spent or by the number of programs initiated, without having too much regard for what was bought and how useful it was to the people who need it - the war fighter and the analyst.

Stephen Cambone

SuccessWarPeopleEasyMeasure

St. Lucia represents, for me, where I found myself musically once I stopped trying to be cool, in some way, and stopped stopping these guilty pleasure influences I had from coming through.

St. Lucia

MyselfMeCoolTryingGuiltyWay

So when it was my turn to start developing projects, I knew the writers I wanted to work with, and I had met every head of studio, every executive and a lot of producers. I started finding things, little crumbs off other people's tables that I would make my own.

Rupert Sanders

WorkPeopleStartFindingMy Own

Sometimes it's like that. I go, 'You know what? I'm going to just change scales. I'm going to even change instruments. And I'm going to go into the chromatics of the Spanish language,' and I do. You know, the poem is totally different. It's like a lunar voice versus a day voice, a solar voice.

Juan Felipe Herrera

ChangeDayVoiceLanguageYouKnow

I loved 'Welcome to the Dollhouse.' That was one of the most influential movies ever. You know that genre with the nerdy girl, and she redeems herself in the end. Like 'Napoleon Dynamite.' And in 'Welcome to the Dollhouse,' she doesn't. She sucks. It's like, that's what's real. That's what's heartbreaking.

Jonathan Krisel

GirlWelcomeEndLovedYouKnow

I am pretty much as you see me. I don't have deep, dark depths and go home in despair.

Deirdre O'Kane

HomeI AmMeDeepYouDark

In dreams begin responsibilities.

Delmore Schwartz

DreamsBeginResponsibilities

The first time I got recognized in public was at a movie theater. It was at the 'Lord of the Rings' movie premiere. I was at the movie theater, and someone came up, and it was so weird to me, because I had never been recognized by a viewer, so I thought that was scary.

Connor Franta

TimeMeThoughtWeirdSomeoneNever

If you're at school, children who play football, you give everything to win... If you don't succeed, that's a huge disappointment. Then it's okay to be sad, but better times are coming.

Arjen Robben

SadChildrenFootballSchoolWin

I do not work out regularly, but I do dance so much and jump around so much on stage, and I do it every day, so I feel like that's my exercise.

Perfume Genius

WorkDayDanceFeelExerciseJump

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