"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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Source : "BYT Interviews: Celeste Ng". Interview with Svetlana Legetic, brightestyoungthings.com. February 22, 2016.

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“The person who sits at his or her desk the longest is not necessarily the best. In fact, he or she might also be the least efficient. It's also often the case that people with family responsibilities are particularly productive at work.”
“Emotional abuse is like being continuously kicked in the shins. It can be worse than getting one punch in the face, and it cements itself.”
“To take wine into your mouth is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.”
“Gary Neville is the club captain but has been injured for the best part of a year now - and Giggsy's taken on the mantlepiece.”
“National Missile Defense is of a nature to retrigger a proliferation of weapons, notably nuclear missiles. Everything that goes in the direction of proliferation is a bad direction.”
“Peter Townshend shows us it's all right to grow up. There is dignity after rock'n'roll.”
“Born to lose. Live to win.”
“I quickly learned that motherhood was a high wire act sometimes performed without a net.”

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