Mary H.K. Choi Quotes
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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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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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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.
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Eventually, I just want to write wavy little short stories.
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In New York, you collect a thousand encounters a year, a passel of handshakes, a zillion air-kisses, and boatloads of business cards that you pitch into your purse and eventually deposit your chewing gum into. Amid this break-neck montage of glancing contacts, I'm tormented by the constant thrumming fear of being fingered as a flake.
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When I was five, I compound-fractured my arm, pulverising my elbow.
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'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.
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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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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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Do you know why we pay trainers and nutritionists? Because having to muster interest in the minor successes of someone else's journey toward pedestrian-ass healthiness is taxing and should be compensated.
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Twenty-thirteen was the year I got super into SoulCycle.
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My brother's in comics. I work in media.
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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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Aside from the can, everything about LaCroix is gentle.
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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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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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If you are someone's emergency contact - you are their person, and they are your person - there is work involved.
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Home is where my house pants live. And they're hideous.
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Never post anything personal to your Facebook wall. Or anyone else's, for that matter. Only snitches and teachers look at Facebook.
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Instagram is not a place for tone or irony.
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Pirates, me hearties, are the Patronus of the freelancer.
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Learning to ride a bike in a public park means anyone can see you.
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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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I'm great at leaving. I am less talented at getting left, though I should be better, given how much it's happened.