Celeste Ng Quotes
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This bikini made me a success.
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You aren't ill: it is just that you are made of second-rate materials.
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I think I have every piece of music Bob Marley ever made.
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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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I hate losing. Whether it's marbles, spades, blackjack, whatever it is.
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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 don't want to end up losing my soul.
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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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I can say with confidence that I never bought into the hype, and I made sure that the people around me didn't buy into the hype, and I did not surround myself with people who fed me the hype. And I'm glad of that as well.
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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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I just get really bored with sticking to the norm and having the proper conservative image. That's just so not me.
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I tell people I won't vote to go to war unless I'm ready to go or send my kids.
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The thing that's important is not something called design; it's how you live, its life itself. Design really comes from that. You cannot separate what you do from your life.
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I'm very interested in the materiality of language. I wonder if, perhaps, this comes from my background in the visual arts. I was a potter for a number of years and earned a BFA in art before going to graduate school for creative writing.
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Juggling is a conversation with the stick, the body, the brain.
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What made something precious? Losing it and finding it.
