Celeste Ng Quotes
I would never tell myself, you have to write 20 pages today or something. But I do try to show up. Read what I wrote, fix things.
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When foreign assistance has a clear mission, buy-in from the aid-recipient country, and explicit metrics for implementation, the United States will be able to transition aid-recipient nations into strong trading partners. One of the greatest examples of this successful transition is South Korea.
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I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.
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I don't really desire things. I prefer to spend my money on experiences, on meals or travel.
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France is a fantastic country. It's between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of the Latin quirkiness.
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Hot girls have so many options. Sitting at home alone any night of the week and searching the Internet for a dude is on zero hot girls' agendas. So they're definitely not coming after you.
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There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends.
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Being that I always perform, I started working out with a trainer to get that endurance and stamina. Now, I guess you could call me a gym rat.
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If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.
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When I was in Van Halen I was hitting notes that were out of my range. I never went for those registers before until Eddie pulled it out of me.
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Spencer's god was Evolution, sometimes also called Progress.
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I only get to spend about six to eight weeks in Australia now and I really miss my family and friends.
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We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.
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I love to watch old movies when I get time off.
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Just learning to think in another language allows you to see your own culture in a better viewpoint.
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In some ways, in the U.S. we don't know how to be. I think in a lot of ways America is about liberation and about change and progressive human relations. And because of that, I feel like that we're confused about who we're supposed to be and what it is that's supposed to satisfy us and make us feel fulfilled.
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As a political current, Maoism was always weak in Britain, confined largely to students from Asia, Africa and Latin America.
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I think if you're against cruelty and you look at what happens to animals in slaughterhouses and on factory farms, you have to be completely against eating meat.
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Not a lot of people know me outside of athletics and believe it or not I am actually quite shy. The exhilaration of a win or tears after falling are the extremes. It takes me a while to get to know someone, but once I do I am very loyal to my old friends.
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You'd have to think that you're at least decent, or you couldn't get up every morning and do it. I think if I live long enough, I might be pretty good
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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You can't cancel my stand-up tours. It's impossible. There's too many separate bosses. There is no 'bosses.'
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In college, my idea of a productive day was to start writing at 7 A.M. and not leave my chair until dinnertime.
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Writing was something I have always been interested in. I've grown up in a household full of books, with both my parents English teachers and very booky.
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I would never tell myself, you have to write 20 pages today or something. But I do try to show up. Read what I wrote, fix things.
