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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. "
Mary H.K. Choi
You
Book
Respect
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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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Ahead
Passion
" I'm just going to write whatever I'm going to write, and whatever shelf or section they end up on at the bookstore is just going to be that, and I'll let the marketing people pull their hair out and worry about it. "
Mary H.K. Choi
People
Marketing
Worry
" Home is where my house pants live. And they're hideous. "
Mary H.K. Choi
Pants
Where
Hideous
" 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
" I am anti-Halloween. "
Mary H.K. Choi
Am
I Am
" You always feel like a hack and a fraud when you're writing. It's just how it goes. "
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Like
Fraud
" 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
" Never hold up your entire group of friends in real life trying to capture a perfect Instagram pose. Nobody cares. "
Mary H.K. Choi
Group
Friends
Life
" I am obsessed with Neil Patrick Harris on Twitter. "
Mary H.K. Choi
Twitter
Obsessed
I Am
" I like science a whole bunch, but I love 'The X-Files' more - I want to believe. "
Mary H.K. Choi
Love
Like
Believe
" 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
" 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
" My brother's in comics. I work in media. "
Mary H.K. Choi
Comics
Work
Media
" 'Sorry' is unlike anything Bieber has made in the past. It has been classified as 'tropical house' and 'dancehall,' but everyone seems to agree on one thing: It's a banger. "
Mary H.K. Choi
Past
Agree
Everyone
" 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
" 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
" As a consumer, I love superheroes. "
Mary H.K. Choi
Love
I Love
Superheroes
" 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. "
Mary H.K. Choi
Cooking
You
Time
" Instagram is not a place for tone or irony. "
Mary H.K. Choi
Instagram
Tone
Place
" I've always been a texting advocate. "
Mary H.K. Choi
Texting
Been
Always
" 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
" Bieber has taste and pull, which is as important to making quality pop as actual talent. "
Mary H.K. Choi
Talent
Taste
Important
" Hopefully, if I get enough of a fan army together, people will let me write fiction. "
Mary H.K. Choi
Together
Will
People
" Aside from the can, everything about LaCroix is gentle. "
Mary H.K. Choi
About
Everything
Gentle
" 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. "
Mary H.K. Choi
People
See
Way
" 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. "
Mary H.K. Choi
Sitting
Thoughts
Work
" Jockeying for a popularity position has been a valorized teen tradition since the notion of a discrete teen stage of life was invented. "
Mary H.K. Choi
Stage
Position
Tradition
" SoulCycle feels gross, is gross, and I'm grateful to have found it. "
Mary H.K. Choi
Grateful
Feels
Gross
" Even the coolest jobs get stultifying with repetition, and the only way to break that cycle is to bring another job into the mix. "
Mary H.K. Choi
Bring
Only
Repetition
" I love my mother a not-normal amount. "
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Love
I Love
Amount