“I’m not willing to take off the hat of the activist to be in Congress. I think I’ve proven that you can do both. When we tell our...
“The second season of Abbott allowed me to trust myself even more. You hope your art is received in the way you intended it to be. And the first...
“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...
“I’m definitely willing to break and mold the new rules for what they are. I have a lot of identities that are often lost in political...
“Making ‘Bros’ looked and felt like all those romantic comedies I grew up watching. When Harry Met Sally and Annie Hall and Working Girl...
“So much of art-making is figuring out where you end—and where the rest of the world begins. I never really understood why we were making things;...
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...
“In our unions, we’re never alone. And through our unions, we can take care of each other the best, and make the most out of that care. It never goes...
“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...
“I’m yearning to go a little deeper in all ways. I still have that yearning that Ilana and I had. That hustle feels in my bones.” -Abbi...
“Writing has always been very therapeutic for me. That’s really where the emotions got transmuted. But it’s one thing to put it down on paper, and...
“People often say being an ambitious artist is being a dogged artist. I am not an ‘at any cost’ person; I care about the cost. I was prolific in my...
“I wanted these interviews to feel like they were lost and rediscovered, like we were eavesdropping on friends. Paul and Joanne’s story doesn’t...
“The framing device of the special is one of those Sunday night interviews that everyone’s watching and talking about the next day. It opens with...
“January 6th was what I call the shimmering and the shaking. It showed people the white ferality that has been the undercurrent of things. What we...
“To make Marcel, this small voice that says, ‘I like myself,’ was an unconscious way of saving myself. Now, I finally understand what I would start...
“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...
“For many years, as the kind of journalism I was doing became more and more directly personal—I was trying to find my way to a language that I could...
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