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“I had set about trying to make myself more polished than a country boy would be.”

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Charles M. Blow is an American journalist born on August 11, 1970. He is known for his column in The New York Times, which focuses on racial, political, and social issues. more

“When I was a freshman in college, I went to a broadcast class by mistake. The first day, the instructor said, "Television anchors sound like they could be from everywhere and nowhere." From that point on, every time I was near an anchor, when no one was around, they would say something and I would say it right after them. It was this effort to get rid of my accent.”

Firsts Said Sound Effort Mistake Class Television College Accents Anchors Instructors Freshman

Author:Charles M. Blow

“The internet is ruthless. And people are very, very happy to let you know when they don't like something.”

People Knows Internet Very Happy Ruthless Like Something

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“I'm trying to illuminate how perilously narrow we draw the concepts of masculinity and sexuality in our male culture.”

Trying Culture Draws Concepts Males Sexuality Masculinity

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“Attachment parenting is this theory that if you wear your baby around and you sleep with your baby and you breast-feed for a long time, the baby will be more attached to you.”

Ifs Long Sleep Theory Baby Long Time Breasts Attachment Attachment Parenting

Author:Sarah Ruhl

“A multivalent culture is an amazing place to be writing theatre.”

Writing Culture Theatre Amazing Places

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“In America I think it's much more full of disruption culturally; it's much more mysterious how we inherit culture here. We grab it where we can find it - we're insatiable - and there can be a sense here that it's not available to you as readily as it is in other cultures.”

Thinking America Culture Available Mysterious Disruption Insatiable Other Cultures

Author:Sarah Ruhl

“I used to paint and I used to draw, and I probably would have loved to have been a portrait painter if I'd been good enough, but I really wasn't good enough.”

Ifs Has Beens Enough Used Draws Paint Painter Good Enough Portraits

Author:Sarah Ruhl

“I think theatre is a democratic act and I think writing a play is not a democratic act. I think we should give writers more leeway and space to write the thing they want to write, and then we should produce the play, multiple times, and let them re-write it.”

Thinking Want Giving Should Writing Play Space Produce Democratic Theatre Multiple

Author:Sarah Ruhl

“I've been training in Jiu-jitsu for about six years and I'm very fortunate to live in that world. All the fighters hang out and have lunch together just about every day and trade stories. And I've always been fascinated how in the world of Jiu-jitsu in L.A. everybody in the fight world - cops, special forces, bouncers, stuntmen - connected across different lines.”

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“What I really value about being a writer is that I can go to rehearsal when I want to, and then, when I need to be at home writing or with my kids, I go home.”

Want Needs Writing I Can Home Kids Values Rehearsal

Author:Sarah Ruhl

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