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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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Jia Tolentino

“The world is beautifully and uncomfortably and terrifyingly ungovernable. Life is not something that we can just Apple watch and pregnancy tracker...

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Harris Dickinson

“I grew up with very different male figures in my life. They had a lot of strength and also a lot of vulnerability, which was confusing to witness...

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Hilton Als

“When you’re writing a profile, you walk into the situation not as a self, but as a person who is going to give yourself over to the...

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Sebastian Stan

“Art is supposed to highlight the things that we can’t always communicate. It’s supposed to go deeper on an instinctive level. For us to understand...

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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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A Talk Easy 2024 Mixtape

It’s been a year. And while we’re not quite done with it (2:55), we wanted to take a moment to celebrate some of our favorite episodes and guests...

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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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Jeff Daniels

“The thing about getting older is you know more, and you’ve seen more. Unlike athletes, whose bodies slow down— for actors it’s an accumulation...

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Jesse Eisenberg

“Often we think we’re going to enter some house or garden, and it’s going to stir up all the old feelings, and it doesn’t. In my film A Real Pain...

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Josh Brolin

“I feel strangely good. I don’t know how to feel about that yet. There’s something about this process that means a lot to me, and that’s being able...

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Astead Herndon

“In doing politics reporting on The Run-Up, we did it in real time because it mattered in real time. I wasn’t just asking questions because I wanted...

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Ta-Nehisi Coates

“Either writing and books are powerful, or they’re not. And if they are—and I’ve argued that they are—then the era made in The Case for Reparations...

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Anna Kendrick

“It’s funny, I wrote a whole book of stories from my life. The objective was to make it as entertaining as possible. And this movie, Woman of the...

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Jason Reynolds

“Revision is a philosophy; it’s a way of life. There is always time to revise, there’s always time to change, there’s always time to tell a new...

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The Wonder of Stevie

“We have forgotten about who we can be and what else is inside us, and Stevie Wonder is trying to access that again. His purpose in this world is to...

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Jason Reitman

“Never mistake your location for your story. In Saturday Night, SNL is the location for a story about one generation ripping television out of the...

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Francis Ford Coppola

“As I think back, when I was working on The Godfather, I had no power at all, but I had used the sort of Machiavellian ability that I developed to do...

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