Celeste Ng Quotes

My parents came to America in the late 1960s because my father studied for a Ph.D. in Indiana. My mother joined him later. We had ancestors who came over at the turn of the century. One worked in a laundry, as is typical of Chinese-American immigrants.

Celeste Ng

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FatherMotherParentsAmericaLate

'Bambi' is an amazing film, and when you watch it today, it's just as beautiful. It's timeless. It's just as beautiful today as it was back then.

John Lasseter

TodayBeautifulAmazingYouBack

I write for film or, in this case, television when I haven't got a play cooking.

Tom Stoppard

CookingTelevisionPlayWriteFilm

The revelation that the National Security Agency has been secretly amassing data on countless law-abiding American citizens has aroused great concern about the potential threat such an effort poses to liberty.

Robert Zubrin

GreatEffortPotentialAmericanData

You can get people to work by using threats or by promising rewards.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

WorkPeopleYouGetThreatsRewards

My father Bill had a problem with Christmas. Although he appears in old photographs to possess a whippy, muscular frame, he was actually a frail man and usually managed to cause some kind of drama just before the festivities began.

Christopher Fowler

FatherManProblemDramaChristmas

After Cannes, my agent told me to get the next flight to LA. He was right. I had a part in 'Prime Suspect 3' by the end of the week.

David Thewlis

MeEndWeekFlightRightNext

I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty.

Claude Levi-Strauss

PovertyIntellectualNeverNaive

At the risk of sounding like a spoilsport, I'd say that pagans have about the same experience of otherness and isolation as anyone else. We're not special in that regard. But this is because the problem of loneliness is almost universal - and that, to my mind, makes it much more serious.

Brendan Myers

LonelinessExperienceMindIsolation

Movie stars are now less remote, less fantasized.

Suzy Kendall

StarsNowMovieLessRemote

I've been fighting since I was a child, fighting to get out of my circumstances.

Mark Hunt

ChildFightingCircumstancesOutGet

I believe climate change is real - and I believe we have to act to protect the climate as fast as we possibly can.

Mark Udall

ChangeBelieveFastClimate Change

New York has always had a love for Southern artists. There's no place else that makes me feel like the city does. I just love the immediate nature of the city, you can get whatever you want whenever you want it and do whatever you want whenever you want to.

Justin Townes Earle

NatureLoveNew YorkCityMeYou

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