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" As a consumer, I love superheroes. "
Mary H.K. Choi
Love
I Love
Superheroes
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" The notion of this 'emergency contact' is, Do you have someone who is holding you down? Do you know where to go if you're feeling bad? I keep likening it to assigning yourself a godparent of your choosing. "
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Down
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Know
" The second single from 'Purpose,' Justin Bieber's fourth studio album, 'Sorry' is an infectious confection - a Dorito for your ears. "
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Sorry
Purpose
" Teens are strange and magical. "
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Teens
Strange
" You are overwhelmed, overscheduled, and dejected because you keep trying to have it all - or at least most of it. You want a fulfilling job and personal life, and it's not working. The way out? Work more. "
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Work
You
Job
" If you're holding your iPhone, and it's the newest iteration of it, you're like, 'Oh, famous people have my phone. Captains of industry have my phone.' And that can be an intoxicating experience for someone who is going off to college for the first time. "
Mary H.K. Choi
College
Experience
People
" I'm definitely an indoor kid who's turned into an inside person. "
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Person
Definitely
Inside
" From the first time I harangued my mother into buying me a pair of platform sandals at the irascible and persistent age of 11, I've worn heels. "
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Me
Age
First
" I am anti-Halloween. "
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Am
I Am
" Eventually, I just want to write wavy little short stories. "
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Stories
Short
Write
" In New York, you collect a thousand encounters a year, a passel of handshakes, a zillion air-kisses, and boatloads of business cards that you pitch into your purse and eventually deposit your chewing gum into. Amid this break-neck montage of glancing contacts, I'm tormented by the constant thrumming fear of being fingered as a flake. "
Mary H.K. Choi
Fear
Business
Cards
" LaCroix sparkling water is absolutely delicious. "
Mary H.K. Choi
Absolutely
Sparkling
Water
" I do not care for musicals. In fact, I hate them. "
Mary H.K. Choi
Musicals
Hate
Fact
" When I moved to New York City from Texas at 22, amateur hour was over. As a newly grown-up person, I vowed I would wear dresses and skirts, wool trousers occasionally, and heels always. "
Mary H.K. Choi
Texas
Always
City
" Everyone is such a mystery, yet we chug along so much of the time presuming we're all on the same page. "
Mary H.K. Choi
Page
Time
Mystery
" I cannot quantify the physics of friendships and do not know exactly how much intense pressure can be applied before these glittery, brittle bonds break. "
Mary H.K. Choi
Break
Pressure
Physics
" Pedicures are disgraceful. "
Mary H.K. Choi
Disgraceful
" Wikipedia's a collaborative experiment akin to Simon Winchester's account of the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary in 'The Professor and the Madman,' which outlines James Murray's mission to produce the tome in the 19th century. "
Mary H.K. Choi
Dictionary
Professor
Creation
" When I was small, I thought I was just cooler than my mom because of how foreign she is. She's really foreign. You'd think it would kill her to get store-bought snacks, she's that foreign. "
Mary H.K. Choi
Mom
Small
She
" I would never give up 'The Wire,' 'Breaking Bad,' and 'Game of Thrones.' I'm grateful for all these expensive, excellent, graphically ambitious programs. "
Mary H.K. Choi
Grateful
Never Give Up
Up
" I love my mother a not-normal amount. "
Mary H.K. Choi
Love
I Love
Amount
" A fanboy's heart is filled with love, enthusiasm, and insecurity. "
Mary H.K. Choi
Heart
Enthusiasm
Love
" My sweet spot as a writer and, especially, as an essayist is sub-1500 words. "
Mary H.K. Choi
Writer
Essayist
Spot
" Hopefully, if I get enough of a fan army together, people will let me write fiction. "
Mary H.K. Choi
Together
Will
People
" I just love the comics industry. "
Mary H.K. Choi
Just
Comics
Industry
" Home is where my house pants live. And they're hideous. "
Mary H.K. Choi
Pants
Where
Hideous
" My brother's in comics. I work in media. "
Mary H.K. Choi
Comics
Work
Media
" Home is where I climb out of my mecha-suit-of-a-poised-persona and power down. "
Mary H.K. Choi
Home
Climb
Down
" Your mom is the first person you fall in love with, so it's loaded forever and carries all this baggage. There's almost always a communication barrier in place. In my case it's a language and cultural barrier, but other times, it's because your mother's love is conditional or because you're fundamentally different. "
Mary H.K. Choi
Mother
Communication
Mom
" Never hold up your entire group of friends in real life trying to capture a perfect Instagram pose. Nobody cares. "
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Group
Friends
Life
" I am obsessed with Neil Patrick Harris on Twitter. "
Mary H.K. Choi
Twitter
Obsessed
I Am