Celeste Ng Quotes
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What's been largely forgotten is that Washington was highly passionate and aggressive, and it was only after losing Philadelphia to the British after a string of disastrous battlefield performances that he finally resigned himself to the more conservative approach with which he has since become associated.
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If you want to decide the question of migration without asking your citizens against the will of the people, you are fighting a losing battle.
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I gained, I think, 65 pounds when I was pregnant. And I will say to moms out there, 'Don't stress about losing it. It will happen when it happens.'
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I steal from every movie ever made.
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I've never even been to bed with a man. Never. That's how pure I am; I have nothing to be ashamed of. My gods made me the way I am.
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I have never made radically different experiments. Whenever I wanted to say something, I said it the way I believed I should.
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I don't want to have to get the lesson of losing [things like health and moving about freely] to appreciate what it was.
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The world is made by the singer for the dreamer.
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You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.
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I had to make some drastic choices to avoid losing myself.
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I don't want my kid to hear any of the albums that I've made.
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I felt really good, really relaxed. I made an effort to clear my mind.
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Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh.
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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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When I got enough confidence, the stage was gone. When I was sure of losing, I won. When I needed people the most, they left me. When I learnt to dry my tears, I found a shoulder to cry on. And when I mastered the art of hating, somebody started loving me.
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Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court?
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I see a woman may be made a fool, If she had not a spirit to resist.
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Does the imagination dwell the most Upon a woman won or a woman lost?
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There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls.
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My father was a misanthrope who slept all day and stayed up all night so that he wouldn't have to see people. He ran a business with a large staff but would go there at night and leave things for them to do during the day when he wasn't there.
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The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
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She was obsessed with French and Swedish cinema. I also remember our mother showing us 'Gone With the Wind' very early on. She absolutely loved Vivien Leigh, so it must have been a formative experience for me, thinking, 'Oh, maybe one day I'll be like Vivien Leigh.'
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What made something precious? Losing it and finding it.
