Celeste Ng Quotes

The first bookstore I loved wasn't a little independent gem nestled in a neighborhood: it was a modest Waldenbooks in our local shopping mall.

Celeste Ng

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ShoppingLovedIndependentFirstGem

I feel an obligation to set the record straight. Actors that say they're affected by something, that it changes their life, that they take it home with them, they're just trying to get nominated for an Oscar!

Joaquin Phoenix

LifeHomeFeelTryingSayChanges

Motherhood has changed me as a person. I'm much happier and very content with life. That can only transfer positively to the track. It will make me a better athlete.

Jessica Ennis-Hill

LifeMeMotherhoodBetterPerson

In working class districts, you had several families living together in the one house, and it was very difficult to get a house, because the politicians who controlled housing were doing so in a very discriminatory fashion.

John Hume

TogetherFashionDoingYouHouse

I had no concerns - I had no reason to have concerns based on what was available to me about North's contacts with the private sector people, but I didn't think a CIA person should do it.

Robert M. Gates

PeopleMeThinkPersonReasonCIA

When I saw houses in Palmdale going for $500K, I knew something was wrong. If you got foreclosed, I don't feel sorry for you!

Tom Leykis

SorryFeelYouWrongGoingSaw

We have to realize that science is a double-edged sword. One edge of the sword can cut against poverty, illness, disease and give us more democracies, and democracies never war with other democracies, but the other side of the sword could give us nuclear proliferation, biogerms and even forces of darkness.

Michio Kaku

ScienceDarknessWarPovertyEdge

I feel like there's a currency to your personal life and your performance - your acting, your work. If that personal life starts to outweigh what the work is, then your work suffers. Your actual performance suffers because the audience won't see the character, they'll see you.

Milo Ventimiglia

LifeWorkCharacterPerformanceYou

I had to fight like hell to convince people I was beautiful in my own Polish half-breed way.

Janice Dickinson

BeautifulFightPeopleHellWayOwn

I love the 'Omen' films because they're real and scary; 'The Exorcist' because I really thought that could happen; 'The Believers' because that was really great.

Johnny Messner

LoveGreatThoughtRealScaryCould

I don't think in my family anyone looked after anyone. It didn't matter how old they were.

Diane Cilento

FamilyThinkMatterOldHowAfter

'Fast and Furious' continues to be alive, which means 'Tokyo Drift' is still alive, which means DK is very much alive.

Brian Tee

FastAliveDriftTokyoStillMeans

You put your heart and soul into something and it makes you a little bit vulnerable.

Ashley Tisdale

HeartSoulYouLittleSomething

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