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Jeff Garlin

The greatest combination is confidence and humbleness. I’m confident that my skill level for comedian is at a high level—but I’m also...

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Nick Offerman

We’re all part of the same bag of molecules. If you care about anything—like your family, your community, or your ecosystem—then we should try...

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Richard Powers

I think it would be hard to be nine years old and to know that by the time you were an adult, half the large animal species in the world would be...

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Noomi Rapace

I created an identity for myself to be a person that always gives one hundred percent. I just can’t do less and I’m very stubborn. In...

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Nikki Giovanni

The composers that I know spend time alone and sing to themselves. It’s wonderful because they would never have heard those sounds if...

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Julie Delpy

The people in the Hollywood system want people that comply. There’s nothing more dangerous than freedom. They don’t want free people because they...

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Toyin Ojih Odutola

Toyin Ojih Odutola is one of our finest visual artists working today. Her art has been featured in the Whitney, MOMA, and the Smithsonian. She joins...

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The Aftermath of 9/11

Last fall, to commemorate the 20th anniversary of 9/11, we turned to the work of photographer Joel Meyerowitz. In the aftermath of that fateful day...

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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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Lorde

“I really have been filling rooms with people to try and understand. A lot of Pure Heroine was just me standing in the corners of parties...

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Lorde

“I really have been filling rooms with people to try and understand. A lot of Pure Heroine was just me standing in the corners of parties...

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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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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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Janicza Bravo and Joi McMillon

“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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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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