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" My brother's in comics. I work in media. "
Mary H.K. Choi
Comics
Work
Media
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" Rihanna's boots are too scared to look bad on Rihanna. "
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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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" There's a really generous readership with YA. "
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" If you are someone's emergency contact - you are their person, and they are your person - there is work involved. "
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" People bursting into song in unison and then pointing it at me is maybe the worst thing I can think of, never mind that you have to pay good money to go be yelled/danced at. "
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" Consider this: alms aside, Wikipedia is fueled by competitive pedantry and emo-ness. How great is that? "
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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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" 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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" I commit words to paper and the Internet for everyone to pick apart, so I think I tend to be a lot more cynical and dulled. "
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" 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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" Never post boring back-to-back selfies. "
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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. "
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" As a consumer, I love superheroes. "
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" Learning to ride a bike in a public park means anyone can see you. "
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" Teens are strange and magical. "
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" I am obsessed with Neil Patrick Harris on Twitter. "
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" Hopefully, if I get enough of a fan army together, people will let me write fiction. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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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" A fanboy's heart is filled with love, enthusiasm, and insecurity. "
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" 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. "
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" When I was five, I compound-fractured my arm, pulverising my elbow. "
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" I just love the comics industry. "
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" 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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" Part of me just wants 'Jane' magazine back, and 'Sassy,' too. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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