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I used to work at Cafe Mogador in the East Village. I love Mogador, but I feel like working almost anywhere will kind of ruin it for you. There was a lot of panicking while being a waitress there. I don't like to think about that. But I love the food. ”
I always thought my alternative life, if I wasn't acting, would be to become a midwife. I love women. I want to help them exist. ”
At home in my room, I'm funny, but if I'm commissioned to be that, I don't feel very funny. ”
Despite my career, so much of my life has been dictated by what I'm afraid of: fear that I am not talented. Fear that people will finally realize that I am a boring individual who doesn't have many ambitions beyond starting a family 'at a good time' in life. ”
I was an only child until I was 15, so I was able to reap the benefit of that. ”
It's fascinating working with young children. You have to improvise around them, and they're moving around and doing stuff, and you have to be real with them. ”
I've begun feeling that my responsibility is to the Earth. Our generation's war is climate change, so I've really been modifying how I eat and what I eat. ”
Walking in the street, particularly in a city like New York, every single day, I am reminded of how objectified women can be. Being catcalled every day, multiple times a day, all the time... it just constantly happens. ”
For me, fear manifests itself in snoozing and inactivity. I just become so sleepy, any time of day, when something needs to be done. I sometimes go days without responding to texts or reading books or being able to process much of anything beyond the sun slowly creeping through my living room windows. ”
The version of me on the Internet, it's not me. It's one portion. ”