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“Self-deprecation is not an answer to keeping one's balance. I think that it's very damaging.”

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American actress known for her exceptional performances in theater, film, and television. Her success in both the Broadway and television worlds has made her the first African American actress to win a Tony, Emmy, and Academy Award. more

“I've never been one of those who is attracted to straight men. Like I always said, 'you're straight, so there's no point' and I have friends who are pursuers of the heterosexual men. They see it as conquests, which I think is a different thing and a more narcissistic thing. And not necessarily a healthy thing.”

Thinking Men Said Different Healthy Different Things Conquest No Point Narcissistic

Author:Bryan Fuller

“I've never been one of those to kind of like, 'I want somebody to do something against their nature to titillate me.' That never holds any interest. And I always want people to be who they are and if they're being not who they are I feel like it's false and, therefore, less easy to connect to. I don't need them to kiss or to display physical intimacy. I think that almost becomes too obvious. I love playing in the suggestive.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Needs Feels Kind Easy Interest Kissing Obvious Intimacy Display

Author:Bryan Fuller

“Anybody who is capable of doing terrible things, you don't want them out in the world, but you can't help but respect their ingenuity and their savvy and their intelligence as they go about their dastardly deeds.”

World Want Helping Terrible Capable Deeds Terrible Things Ingenuity Savvy

Author:Bryan Fuller

“Cinema and emotion trump reality for me.”

Reality Emotion Trump Cinema

Author:Bryan Fuller

“We often do to people what people are very comfortable with doing to animals without a second thought.”

People Animal Comfortable Second Thoughts

Author:Bryan Fuller

“Something I always tell students is, when you're writing something, you want to write the first draft and you want it to come out easily in the beginning. If you're afraid to say what you really have to say, you stammer. When you're thinking of your listener, that's when you start stuttering and it's just because you're nervous that your listener is passing judgment.”

Ifs Thinking Want Writing Firsts Students Judgment Passing Passings Nervous Listeners Thinking Of You Stuttering Passing Judgment

Author:Sandra Cisneros

“Your prospective employer, or the person you have a crush on, or the person you want to talk to. You're judging yourself, you know, thinking about your listener. You're not thinking about what you're saying. And that same thing happens when you write.”

Thinking Knows Want Writing Persons Happens Judging Things Happen Crush Listeners Employers Thinking About You Judging Yourself

Author:Sandra Cisneros

“One way to get very humble is to dedicate the work you're going to do to your community. And by community I mean that community you have a special vision for, that only you see, that no one else in a room sees. That special community in pain, that through a pain you've suffered, you're able to have that vision, that super-ray vision.”

Way Mean Able Pain Community Rooms Vision Special Humble One Way Rays

Author:Sandra Cisneros

“What you're going to be asked to do is bigger than what you think you can do. It's always bigger than what you think you can handle, but you're never going to be given something you can't handle.”

Thinking Given Can Do Bigger Handle You Can Do It

Author:Sandra Cisneros

“When I have a writing workshop, I like to have people that are anthropologists and people who are poking around in other fields, I like to have them all in the same workshop, and not worry about genre. I like to mix it up, because the kind of comments you can get from a fiction writer about your poetry are going to be very different than what you'll get from a poet. Or the comments you'll get from a filmmaker about your performance are going to be very different. My writing workshop is about mixing it up, cross-pollinating, not only in genres but in occupations.”

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