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Ocean Vuong

“The first novel was my attempt to bring poetry’s ethos into the novel form. The novel is the youngest form; it’s a young genre. Because it’s so...

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Jelani Cobb

“Should you paint over all the monuments and the memorials that were created for George Floyd, the history still exists—and the people willing to...

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Sarah Silverman

“There’s power in the quiet moments between words. Being comfortable in silence—to not be afraid of it—is not just about stand-up. Once I...

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Percival Everett

“I did fall in love with caves for a while. Caves are scary to us in the abstract; they’re dark, and there’s something in there. When you start going...

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Ira Glass

“I saw this quote from Michael Cunningham that really described my experience learning to make things. He said, ‘I don’t believe in talent. What I...

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Penn Badgley

“Playing Joe Goldberg has been beautiful, healing, wounding, and intense. The glorification of a villain like Joe was sort of imaginative and...

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Viola Davis

“The way people commit to Air Force One, Die Hard, Sigourney Weaver in Alien—I want them to commit to me. There is no closet in the studios filled...

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Viola Davis

“The way people commit to Air Force One, Die Hard, Sigourney Weaver in Alien—I want them to commit to me. There is no closet in the studios filled...

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Elizabeth Warren

“The American consumer is the horse that pulls the cart economically in our country, but really the whole world. When consumer confidence falls—when...

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“This book, Dream Count, has been in my head for many years. I knew I wanted to write about women’s lives, and I really believe that my mother helped...

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Jenny Slate

“When I was starting out as an actor, I wish I had been exposed to things that had suited my tastes more. I didn’t understand that what I thought was...

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Seth Rogen

“There’s always an existential crisis in Hollywood because, at its core, it is a conflicted industry. It’s art and commerce trying to coexist...

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Seth Rogen

“There’s always an existential crisis in Hollywood because, at its core, it is a conflicted industry. It’s art and commerce trying to coexist...

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Ezra Klein

“When I say I see this moment as an event horizon, what I mean is that I don’t know what’s on the other side of it. It might be better. Maybe this...

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Amanda Seyfried

“I think it’s important to appreciate where I am. Life is long but really fast. My priority is to be present in everything I do, to be deliberate...

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Tyler Mitchell

“I hope to create a reference to the past, to the land we’ve lived on over generations, but also into the future, asking what that could look like...

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