Sandra Tsing Loh Quotes

• Panic is efficient. Panic is effective. Panic is the way I get things done! Panic attacks are my booster rockets!

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  Anxiety, Done, Panic Attacks

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• All autobiography is fiction.

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  Crafts, Fiction, Autobiography

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• here are the top three global resources getting scarcer in the twenty-first century: ozone layer, rain forest, people eager to read the fiction of others. That's right, folks. For the first time in I believe written history, there are far more fiction writers on earth than fiction readers.

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  Book, Reading, Rain

  Sandra Tsing Loh (2002). “A Year in Van Nuys”, Three Rivers Press

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• When faced with writer's block, lower your standards and keep going.

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  Block, Standards, Keep Going

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• Parental anxieties: A timeline. Pre-1800s: Potato famine, death of entire villages. 1900s: Trying to keep dad's job through depression so entire family does not starve or have to sell off children to agribusiness. 2000: Infringement of Parenthood on sense of Personhood.

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  Jobs, Dad, Children

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• Recently it was pointed out to me - in a kind of hurtful way, to be honest - that people in Los Angeles are aurally challenged. That is, at social events, we simply do not listen to others. We do not ask them questions about themselves, we do not nod attentively when they speak; really, if we were to examine ourselves, we would realize that we simply have no interest in others at all.

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  People, Hurtful, Way

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• living in Los Angeles was like being an extra in a movie that was starring other people entirely.

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  People, Los Angeles, Extras

  Sandra Tsing Loh (1997). “If You Lived Here, You Would be Home by Now”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)

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• Los Angeles is the nation's cultural scapegoat.

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  Los Angeles, Scapegoat, Nations

  Sandra Tsing Loh (1996). “Depth Takes a Holiday: Essays from Lesser Los Angeles”, Riverhead Books

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• Nowadays, it is possible to perform various forms of Low-Impact listening via the telephone. The advent of technological advances such as computer games and online services (like ones that let you check stocks) have enabled Low-Impact listeners to endure family phone calls much longer than in the past. Dangers include mouse clicks, heavy typing, or a sudden loud buzzer that goes off when you have finished Boggle.

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  Past, Games, Impact

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• It's not racism per se but the tyranny of normalcy - no: the tyranny of attractive normalcy. Which leads to loveable white models who are supposed to be playing ordinary, adorably flawed professionals just like you and me with their brilliant minority friends (with vastly less camera time) who are surgeons. But it's not just ethnicity. That narrow vision also extends to, say, things like women leads. Women leads have to be good-hearted and nice, with a Slutty Best Friend. The main character can't be slutty. Because that's not attractively normal etc

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  Nice, Character, Ethnicity

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