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" Never post food on your Instagram. Nobody cares, and only old people do it. "
Mary H.K. Choi
People
Nobody Cares
Nobody
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" I'm great at leaving. I am less talented at getting left, though I should be better, given how much it's happened. "
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Great
" 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
" Home is where I climb out of my mecha-suit-of-a-poised-persona and power down. "
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Climb
Down
" I love how British people call Asian people 'oriental' unless they're talking about Indian people, who get to be called Asian. "
Mary H.K. Choi
Talking
Asian
British
" 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. "
Mary H.K. Choi
Down
Bad
Know
" Food rules. Little rivals the pleasure of tearing into a glistening burger. "
Mary H.K. Choi
Rivals
Rules
Burger
" I'm definitely an indoor kid who's turned into an inside person. "
Mary H.K. Choi
Person
Definitely
Inside
" The thing about leaving New York is that you can come back. "
Mary H.K. Choi
Leaving
You
New York
" The first time I drank LaCroix, I half expected it to be filled with self-tanner. Or Axe body spray. "
Mary H.K. Choi
Half
Time
Axe
" Twenty-thirteen was the year I got super into SoulCycle. "
Mary H.K. Choi
Got
Super
Year
" 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
" I do not care for musicals. In fact, I hate them. "
Mary H.K. Choi
Musicals
Hate
Fact
" 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
" Pedicures are disgraceful. "
Mary H.K. Choi
Disgraceful
" 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
" As a consumer, I love superheroes. "
Mary H.K. Choi
Love
I Love
Superheroes
" 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
" 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
" I just love the comics industry. "
Mary H.K. Choi
Just
Comics
Industry
" I'm pretty sure I peaked at 15. "
Mary H.K. Choi
Pretty
Peaked
Sure
" Reading aloud to other people is wonderful - if you have people who will suffer it. "
Mary H.K. Choi
People
You
Wonderful
" 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. "
Mary H.K. Choi
You
Same
Internet
" If you are someone's emergency contact - you are their person, and they are your person - there is work involved. "
Mary H.K. Choi
Someone
Work
You
" I was born in Korea and left before my first birthday. "
Mary H.K. Choi
Left
Birthday
First
" Bieber has taste and pull, which is as important to making quality pop as actual talent. "
Mary H.K. Choi
Talent
Taste
Important
" 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
" 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
" '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
" 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. "
Mary H.K. Choi
Food
Die
Brain
" 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