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" Bieber has taste and pull, which is as important to making quality pop as actual talent. "
Mary H.K. Choi
Talent
Taste
Important
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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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You
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" Have passion, yes, but acknowledge that side projects are still work. They shake things up, just like switching up your workout helps you stay one step ahead of your torpid metabolism. They scramble the synapses. "
Mary H.K. Choi
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Passion
" By the time you're in your 30s, unless somebody makes the god-awful decision to gift you with a cooking class or salsa lessons, it may have been a while since you learnt something new. "
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Cooking
You
Time
" Join a Bikram-flow-yoga, Flywheel, or Pilates class so you can find spiritual oneness amid grunting socialite moms. Do whatever you want. Just, please, for the love of God, stop talking about it. "
Mary H.K. Choi
God
Love
Spiritual
" Learning to ride a bike in a public park means anyone can see you. "
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Park
See
Bike
" When you have tools with which to stalk everyone all the time, the most seemingly aloof person wins. "
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Person
Time
Tools
" My brother's in comics. I work in media. "
Mary H.K. Choi
Comics
Work
Media
" Pedicures are disgraceful. "
Mary H.K. Choi
Disgraceful
" Never post anything personal to your Facebook wall. Or anyone else's, for that matter. Only snitches and teachers look at Facebook. "
Mary H.K. Choi
Personal
Matter
Never
" I do not care for musicals. In fact, I hate them. "
Mary H.K. Choi
Musicals
Hate
Fact
" For my first job interview out of college, I wore a cream-colored cotton suit with cap sleeves and an inverted box pleat skirt that was appropriate for the late-August heat - and wildly discordant with the Red Hook offices of the graffiti magazine I had called twice to find. "
Mary H.K. Choi
Find
Cotton
College
" I'm a sucker when it comes to under-explored human potential and 'stuff that makes you be better.' "
Mary H.K. Choi
Potential
Human
Better
" 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. "
Mary H.K. Choi
Way
Technology
Phone
" Nothing beats SoulCycle for dumbing all the way out or re-calibrating a mood in less than an hour, which is reassuring, since I typically wake up in a panic that's candy-coated with a low-grade rage. "
Mary H.K. Choi
Panic
Rage
Way
" I was born in Korea and left before my first birthday. "
Mary H.K. Choi
Left
Birthday
First
" Yes, Justin Bieber is a contrivance. Yes, Justin Bieber's lyrics are insipid - worse still, disingenuous. Yes, his tattoos stink. Yes, he's lousy at skateboarding. But what does any of this actually matter? In case you missed it, Bieber won. "
Mary H.K. Choi
Tattoos
You
Yes
" 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 just love the comics industry. "
Mary H.K. Choi
Just
Comics
Industry
" In order to be a good emergency contact, you need a lot of friend-patience and empathy. Often, this comes from personal experience with anxiety, trauma, and depression. "
Mary H.K. Choi
Good
Experience
Depression
" Reading aloud to other people is wonderful - if you have people who will suffer it. "
Mary H.K. Choi
People
You
Wonderful
" LaCroix sparkling water is absolutely delicious. "
Mary H.K. Choi
Absolutely
Sparkling
Water
" Food rules. Little rivals the pleasure of tearing into a glistening burger. "
Mary H.K. Choi
Rivals
Rules
Burger
" Hopefully, if I get enough of a fan army together, people will let me write fiction. "
Mary H.K. Choi
Together
Will
People
" I have horrible shoe hang-ups. Particularly when it comes to flats. "
Mary H.K. Choi
Horrible
Particularly
Shoe
" I love New York, but sometimes New York is so mean to you. "
Mary H.K. Choi
New York
Sometimes
You
" Nothing is more untoward than a grown man tasking another with snapping a pic expressly so he can 'flex the 'fit.' It's tacky -self-aggrandizing - and speaks to an existential neediness typically reserved for failed actresses and phenomenally successful rappers. "
Mary H.K. Choi
He
More
Nothing
" 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
" 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. "
Mary H.K. Choi
Work
You
Job
" As a consumer, I love superheroes. "
Mary H.K. Choi
Love
I Love
Superheroes
" My mom is an excellent mom. She knows I am irascible, prickly, and antisocial. She knows that most human interaction makes me tired and that I either scare people away with precise invectives or trot out the fakest, nicest skinjob of myself because it requires zero effort. "
Mary H.K. Choi
Myself
People
Tired