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" I am obsessed with Neil Patrick Harris on Twitter. "
Mary H.K. Choi
Twitter
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" The thing that I find interesting about teens now is that no matter how desperate we seem to be taxonomically 'othering' them, for one reason or another - because the Internet, because whatever - I feel like a lot of the benchmarks and the experiences are, you know, same for teens through time immemorial. "
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" Part of me just wants 'Jane' magazine back, and 'Sassy,' too. "
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" 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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" The first time I drank LaCroix, I half expected it to be filled with self-tanner. Or Axe body spray. "
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" I'm pretty sure I peaked at 15. "
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" Food rules. Little rivals the pleasure of tearing into a glistening burger. "
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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 have horrible shoe hang-ups. Particularly when it comes to flats. "
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" 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. "
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" Never hold up your entire group of friends in real life trying to capture a perfect Instagram pose. Nobody cares. "
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" The thing about leaving New York is that you can come back. "
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Leaving
You
New York
" 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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" 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 love how British people call Asian people 'oriental' unless they're talking about Indian people, who get to be called Asian. "
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Asian
British
" Never post boring back-to-back selfies. "
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Post
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Never
" I suspect that living 24/7 in workout attire is the clothing version of the messy topknot. We all know that your hair is dirty, or too long, or too frizzy, or your roots have grown out, but we are all going to accept it as fabulous because that's the deal. "
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Living
Hair
" When you have tools with which to stalk everyone all the time, the most seemingly aloof person wins. "
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Time
Tools
" I would never give up 'The Wire,' 'Breaking Bad,' and 'Game of Thrones.' I'm grateful for all these expensive, excellent, graphically ambitious programs. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I find texting to be kind of a safe space. "
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" I like science a whole bunch, but I love 'The X-Files' more - I want to believe. "
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" I love New York, but sometimes New York is so mean to you. "
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" 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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" 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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" I do not care for musicals. In fact, I hate them. "
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" You always feel like a hack and a fraud when you're writing. It's just how it goes. "
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" A fanboy's heart is filled with love, enthusiasm, and insecurity. "
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" I have a lot of respect for people who write a whole book because I've heard it will kill you. "
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