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Celeste Ng Quotes

My mother wrote a teen column for the South China Morning Post in the 1950s when she was growing up in Hong Kong. Her name was Lily Mark, but she sometimes wrote under her confirmation name, Margaret Mark. That was how she met my father.

Celeste Ng

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: 1980

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Father Mother Morning Teen Name She

Usually when I am in a movie that is about to come out, if people don't love it, that is fine - I can handle it.

Melanie Lynskey

Love I Am People I Can Out Handle

The rosary was said every evening. I always liked that sentence about the medieval Churches, that they were the Bibles of the poor. The Church was my first book and I would think it is still my most important book.

John McGahern

Book Think Evening Church Important

There was a widespread indignation in the American media. They were saying, 'How can you make a movie during an election that's about politics? What are you doing? Are you trying to influence people's lives?' To which my response was, 'Well, I hope so.'

John Sayles

Hope Politics People Saying American

Bookstores are lonely forts, spilling light onto the sidewalk. They civilize their neighborhoods.

John Updike

Light Lonely Neighborhoods Sidewalk

I've learned it's not about being famous and big money. L.A. can be a fun place, but when it comes down to it - and this might sound hokey - there's no place like home.

Amy Locane

Home Money Fun Famous Down Place

As a kid, I was hyperactive and the naughty one in school. I wouldn't listen to anyone and thought I knew best. At home, I was always breaking things and annoying everyone.

Amir Khan

Home Best School Thought Listen Kid

I was pleased when the picture was over I fit in all right and I spoke well enough as I said before, cause I was scared to death there for a minute. I mean, you're doing a scene with somebody like that or they're watching you or something, you'd better come up with something.

Rod Steiger

Death Better Picture Doing Enough

I want people to go to the movies. I am the man of the spectacle. I'm playing.

Roman Polanski

Man I Am People Go Want Movies

I developed an interesting skill set in that I was able to create a network and create experiences and environment - I built this decadent playground for men. It might have been successful, but it wasn't important. It didn't have any true meaning.

Molly Bloom

Men Interesting Environment Meaning

I had an obsession with underarm shields - pointy ones, round ones, full ones, half ones.

Dawn Steel

Obsession Half Round Full Had

The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy - the one that's absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes.

Christopher Hitchens

My fictitious characters will take the bit between their teeth and gallop off and do something that I hadn't counted on. However, I always insist on dragging them back to the straight and narrow.

Colleen McCullough

Back Will Teeth Always Something