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" Twenty-thirteen was the year I got super into SoulCycle. "
Mary H.K. Choi
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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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" Eventually, I just want to write wavy little short stories. "
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" I find texting to be kind of a safe space. "
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" Manhattan, after eight years here, still reminds me of Hong Kong. There are parts of Chinatown that are the spit and image of streets in Wan Chai, and I am held in thrall by the Chrysler building as much as I was by I.M. Pei's Bank of China Tower. "
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" Bieber has taste and pull, which is as important to making quality pop as actual talent. "
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" Try life as your own boss, on your own voyage. No daily commute. No salad bar at 12:15. No cc'ing about the meeting. "
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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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" I have a lot of respect for people who write a whole book because I've heard it will kill you. "
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" Home is where I climb out of my mecha-suit-of-a-poised-persona and power down. "
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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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" Learning to ride a bike in a public park means anyone can see you. "
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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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" There's a really generous readership with YA. "
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" Privateers, military contractors - these aren't pirates. They have bosses. Real pirates are sellswords on missions of their own making. "
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" I love how British people call Asian people 'oriental' unless they're talking about Indian people, who get to be called Asian. "
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" Rihanna's boots are too scared to look bad on Rihanna. "
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" I'm a sucker when it comes to under-explored human potential and 'stuff that makes you be better.' "
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" Food rules. Little rivals the pleasure of tearing into a glistening burger. "
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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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" 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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" SoulCycle feels gross, is gross, and I'm grateful to have found it. "
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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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