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" I just love the comics industry. "
Mary H.K. Choi
Just
Comics
Industry
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" Food rules. Little rivals the pleasure of tearing into a glistening burger. "
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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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Book
" Eventually, I just want to write wavy little short stories. "
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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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Technology
Phone
" When you have tools with which to stalk everyone all the time, the most seemingly aloof person wins. "
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" LaCroix sparkling water is absolutely delicious. "
Mary H.K. Choi
Absolutely
Sparkling
Water
" 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. "
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Always
City
" I am obsessed with Neil Patrick Harris on Twitter. "
Mary H.K. Choi
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Obsessed
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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. "
Mary H.K. Choi
People
See
Way
" I am anti-Halloween. "
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" My sweet spot as a writer and, especially, as an essayist is sub-1500 words. "
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Writer
Essayist
Spot
" 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
" I'm great at leaving. I am less talented at getting left, though I should be better, given how much it's happened. "
Mary H.K. Choi
Leaving
I Am
Great
" 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
" The thing about leaving New York is that you can come back. "
Mary H.K. Choi
Leaving
You
New York
" 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
" Bieber has taste and pull, which is as important to making quality pop as actual talent. "
Mary H.K. Choi
Talent
Taste
Important
" Twenty-thirteen was the year I got super into SoulCycle. "
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Got
Super
Year
" 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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Sitting
Thoughts
Work
" 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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Grateful
Never Give Up
Up
" I have horrible shoe hang-ups. Particularly when it comes to flats. "
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Particularly
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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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Cooking
You
Time
" If you are someone's emergency contact - you are their person, and they are your person - there is work involved. "
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Work
You
" Pirates, me hearties, are the Patronus of the freelancer. "
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Pirates
" SoulCycle feels gross, is gross, and I'm grateful to have found it. "
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Grateful
Feels
Gross
" If you can relate to what another person is going through while giving their experience room to be its own discrete thing, you're probably a crackerjack emergency contact. "
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Giving
Experience
" Aside from the can, everything about LaCroix is gentle. "
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About
Everything
Gentle
" 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. "
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Break
Pressure
Physics
" For people who deal with anxiety or depression or can't be in large social groups cognitively, emotionally, or even physically, phones help bridge the gap. "
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People
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