Celeste Ng Quotes

Browse Amazon reviews, and you'll see a surprising number of readers who believe one novel can summarize a country, its culture, and its people.

Celeste Ng

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After I'd been a lawyer for about five or six years, I started playing around with fiction.

John Grisham

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Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody's got to pay for them so they're a necessary evil.

Michael Bloomberg

GoodEvilGood ThingsYouWantPay

Tom Gores has been involved in the City of Detroit, not just the surrounding area.

Stan Van Gundy

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My kids love it. I thought I was the coolest dad in the world when I got to be in a Bond film, but 'Harry Potter', too? Well, I think I qualify for a medal for exceptional parenting or something, don't you?

Robbie Coltrane

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You can't, or you shouldn't, be nominated for an Oscar unless you've turned in a performance that's special.

Rita Moreno

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I don't have to deal with the issues of the daily news cycle.

Ron Suskind

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As much as I am very critical of Ariel Sharon in the first Lebanon war, I think that he was the right person at the right time in the right place as prime minister. He made a series of very significant decisions, not one of which was popular or seemed justified at the time.

Ronen Bergman

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The Left can play the race card incessantly without consequence or punishment, but woe to anyone else who even breathes valid opposition to their policies: Thou shall be deemed a racist.

Monica Crowley

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Honesty allows us to live with not knowing. We do not know the full story; we do not know where we are in the story. We do not know who, ultimately, is at fault or who will carry the blame in the end.

David Whyte

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The atmosphere is much too near for dreams. It forces us to action. It is close to us. We are in it and of it. It rouses us both to study and to do. We must know its moods and also its motive forces.

Cleveland Abbe

DreamsActionKnowStudyAtmosphere

As an actor, you've got to have faith in the director's vision, that the director has a vision for this that is greater than the critics say.

Cliff Curtis

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You always want to be part of something you're so passionate about.

Colin Morgan

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