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" Aside from the can, everything about LaCroix is gentle. "
Mary H.K. Choi
About
Everything
Gentle
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" I love small-business owners, and I actually love the idea of vintage clothing, but I don't get when they pretend that the Internet doesn't exist or that other customers have never been to the whole rest of the country where you can rummage around and buy the same dang belt for a buck and a half. "
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" Even the coolest jobs get stultifying with repetition, and the only way to break that cycle is to bring another job into the mix. "
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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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" I'm pretty sure I peaked at 15. "
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" I'm a big believer in puking out all your thoughts in a single sitting and getting some version of the work down, because the alternative just prolongs the agony. The first draft is hideous and ajskdlkdfksjdfslfjk, but it's just a map for where the big blocks go. "
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" I do not care for musicals. In fact, I hate them. "
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" Home is where I climb out of my mecha-suit-of-a-poised-persona and power down. "
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" If there was a button that I could push that would agog my brain to the level that I felt first seeing 'Avatar' in its entirety and another one for food pellets, I would die of starvation. "
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" I'm great at leaving. I am less talented at getting left, though I should be better, given how much it's happened. "
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" My brother's in comics. I work in media. "
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" I'm definitely an indoor kid who's turned into an inside person. "
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" 'Avatar' is staggering. It's seismic. Evolutionarily speaking, it is cladogenesis in a thunderclap. "
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" The thing about living in New York as a writer is that you hit that age where it feels like everyone has a book all at the same time. It's like that one year where you're invited to twenty weddings. "
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" Try life as your own boss, on your own voyage. No daily commute. No salad bar at 12:15. No cc'ing about the meeting. "
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" Pedicures are disgraceful. "
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" Never post boring back-to-back selfies. "
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" There is so much focus on being self-sufficient, and it makes it very difficult to ask for things. I've been crippled by this notion of high-functioning self-sufficiency. And I see it a lot in younger girls. Asking for help brings people closer in a way that I suspected but didn't actually put into practice. "
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" Manhattan, after eight years here, still reminds me of Hong Kong. There are parts of Chinatown that are the spit and image of streets in Wan Chai, and I am held in thrall by the Chrysler building as much as I was by I.M. Pei's Bank of China Tower. "
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" I always get super confused by the way we look at technology, because since when were all phone calls created equal? It's not like every text is the same or that all texts are human interactions that are compromised. I don't get how conduits somehow dictate sentiment. "
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