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" Rihanna's boots are too scared to look bad on Rihanna. "
Mary H.K. Choi
Rihanna
Scared
Too
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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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" My brother's in comics. I work in media. "
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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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" I do not care for musicals. In fact, I hate them. "
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" 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
" Learning to ride a bike in a public park means anyone can see you. "
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" 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. "
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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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Physics
" I've always been a texting advocate. "
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Been
Always
" Food rules. Little rivals the pleasure of tearing into a glistening burger. "
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Rivals
Rules
Burger
" 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 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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Food
Die
Brain
" Pedicures are disgraceful. "
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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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People
Marketing
Worry
" 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. "
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People
See
Way
" I have horrible shoe hang-ups. Particularly when it comes to flats. "
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Horrible
Particularly
Shoe
" There's a really generous readership with YA. "
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Readership
Generous
Ya
" From the first time I harangued my mother into buying me a pair of platform sandals at the irascible and persistent age of 11, I've worn heels. "
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Me
Age
First
" 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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Down
Bad
Know
" 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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You
Living
Book
" My sweet spot as a writer and, especially, as an essayist is sub-1500 words. "
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Writer
Essayist
Spot
" Bieber has taste and pull, which is as important to making quality pop as actual talent. "
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Taste
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" Jockeying for a popularity position has been a valorized teen tradition since the notion of a discrete teen stage of life was invented. "
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Position
Tradition
" As a consumer, I love superheroes. "
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Superheroes
" Pirates, me hearties, are the Patronus of the freelancer. "
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Pirates
" 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. "
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You
Same
Internet
" I'm a sucker when it comes to under-explored human potential and 'stuff that makes you be better.' "
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Human
Better
" I'm definitely an indoor kid who's turned into an inside person. "
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Person
Definitely
Inside
" When you have tools with which to stalk everyone all the time, the most seemingly aloof person wins. "
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Time
Tools
" SoulCycle feels gross, is gross, and I'm grateful to have found it. "
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Grateful
Feels
Gross