Author - Grace Perkins

Holland Taylor

“I never thought in terms of ‘I’m going to buck the system.’ I just thought from day to day, minute to minute, lily pad to lily pad, what am I...

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Poorna Jagannathan

 ” I am an immigrant mom, and I play an immigrant mom. I do believe that these portrayals change people’s perception of immigrants, which is...

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Candace Parker

 “It’s not those big moments that go first; it’s the preparation. And you know you’re not where you need to be if you cannot get up on a...

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Dr. Ashish Jha

“You want to actually begin by trying to understand why people are where they are. And then if you think that they’re in a place that...

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Brian De Palma

“Whether it’s the studio, the producers, the actors, art directors– everybody’s got an ego and you have to be very aware of how they’re...

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Joi McMillon

“I just feel so blessed to be able to do what I set out to do, which is edit films. And I didn’t ever think that I wasn’t going to be able to...

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Janicza Bravo

“The jewel of getting older is being able to appreciate the road more. Or being able to look back on the road and go, ‘yes, it was hard, but it...

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Larry Wilmore

“I was guided by wanting to put something on TV that wasn’t there. I’m not the person that you come to and you say, ‘We want to do...

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Vince Staples

“If you live in and you accept those moments and learn from those moments while making music, I think that’s the art of it. Not necessarily the...

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Ts Madison

 “There’s nothing like liberation. Life can have you bound and chained to your past. It can have you bound and chained to rules. It can...

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Steven Soderbergh

“We’re a species wired for narrative, and I love being a part of that storytelling continuum. It’s a real pleasure and privilege to be working...

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Uzo Aduba

“[The work] came home with me. From the interior, I could see and feel this woman who had lost track of her pain. I could feel her pain and her...

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Dave Eggers

“I don’t know if it started with giving every superhero an origin story, but we so hurt the cause of art if it’s really just the end product of...

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Sleater-Kinney

“There’s always been something about Sleater-Kinney that’s been as much symbolic as it is actual. But inside of that are two real...

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Ocean Vuong

“Fiction is strongest when it launches a moral question. When it goes out and seeks to answer. To create an architecture in which the book can...

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Jake Tapper

“Truth and decency, I think, are things that we’re allowed to take positions on, but not just allowed, supposed to take positions on...

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Anna Sale

“Life is having the bottom fall out and having to rebuild it back. And how you rebuild it back–and with whom–is what our lives are made of...

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Jhumpa Lahiri

“Nothing is ours. Life is borrowed. We’re here for such a short time and we just pass through and borrow it all. We borrow the sky, we...

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