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Zadie Smith

“When you’re young, you come to destroy the generation above. I’m used to being the destroyer, and now I’m here to be destroyed. What I do notice...

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Sandra Cisneros

“When you’re a writer, you live in dreamtime. It’s kind of like a kite. You begin with your own story, and the higher it goes, it starts to take off...

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David Byrne

“In musical collaboration, you can kind of get outside of yourself. Being in a band, performing— in all those things, you have to collaborate and...

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Matt Belloni

“Entertainment as a business does not work unless we have a viable career path for writers and actors. It can’t just be a gig economy where...

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Alana Haim

“It makes me emotional—how rich my life is with such amazing people. I’m so grateful to have met Paul and Cooper. Like, look at this thing we...

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Este Haim

“Three Jews from the valley that are sisters, playing rock music in 2013 at the height of EDM… it wasn’t necessarily like, yeah, I can see it. It’s...

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Ludwig Göransson

“In making Oppenheimer, we were trying to find the tone of the movie— and I wanted to do that by finding the emotional core of the music. I always...

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Beto O’Rourke

“The humanitarian crisis on the Texas-Mexico border is going to be a political crisis for Democrats. If we cannot fix this, I guarantee you we will...

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Alex O’Keefe

“The question coming out of this strike is, how do we turn this moment into a movement? This is a new generation. There is a new wave in Hollywood...

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Joel Meyerowitz

“We really make photographs; we don’t take them. I was trying to get away from the ‘caught moment,’ because Robert Frank and those photographers...

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Joyce Carol Oates

“Writing is like shaping some clay. It’s the act of shaping it that’s sort of fascinating. You don’t think, is this going to be just...

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Astead Herndon

“2016 was a story of political media completely missing the country. That has been my driver of the reason to do bottom-up reporting. By the time I...

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Jon Bernthal

“The scary thing is—when you change, you’re ripping out a whole part of yourself, and you don’t know what goes in there. You’ve got to start filling...

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Bill Hader

“Writing forever, I would write screenplays and realize they were about other movies. I’d get inspired and write these cool sequences, but the...

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Padma Lakshmi

“America is beautiful because it’s full of all kinds of people. In Taste the Nation, I hope that I give as balanced a picture of these stories...

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Carol Burnett

“Life goes on, and you have to be grateful that it all existed. That you were able to make your dreams real. I’ll always be fortunate.” -Carol...

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Margaret Atwood

“After the poem has passed out of the hands of the one who’s written it down, and after that person may have departed from time and space and...

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Ke Huy Quan

“Over the past few months, many people have come up to me and told me that our movie changed their life, and they start crying. That’s the most...

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