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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Nov 07, 2020
I worked at 'Mademoiselle,' and then it shut, and I worked at 'GQ' for three years, during which I was freelancing. I wrote for 'Vibe.' I did music reviews. I wrote for 'Time Out.' I was desperate to get into 'Entertainment Weekly' or 'New York Magazine.' Like, desperate.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a woman, I don't feel like I have a responsibility to create better female characters. I feel like I have a responsibility to create good characters. Because the truth is, those kinds of things ghettoize us even more as writers.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I say a prayer several times a day about what I can control and what I can't control.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Around me, there's always music playing. It just calms me down; it soothes me. It helps me write. It helps me with my mood.
- Nov 07, 2020
Wherever I go, stuff accumulates.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The impetus for 'Power' was me writing about my dad, who was an advertising executive and very interested in image. He thought that perception was reality and what people thought of you was what was real about you.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think television is about the characters you want to see again, and so you want to invite these people into your home. And certainly, seeing them get into bad situations and then watching them have to get themselves out, that's always super satisfying.
- Design
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't write scenes where one person is right and one person is wrong. It's very much by design that everyone has a point of view that you as an audience member can understand.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think as long as I can tell you a story about people that you understand, it doesn't matter if you don't like what they do; you understand why they did it.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a writer of fiction, you don't ever want to limit the characters you create to the life you've lived. That's insanity to me.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being a showrunner is doing a bit of everything. It's not just writing. It's also management: managing actors, managing producers, managing a crew, being kind to people, being a good boss, observing deadlines.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm seeing more and more people of color do what I do as showrunners, and that's so great. I would love to get to the point where we don't have to talk about it anymore.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's really cool that someone could have ovaries and the presidency. Growing up, I thought I could never be president because I was black and female. Now I know that's wrong. Within my own lifetime - that's different. Within my lifetime, interracial couples are more common. Within my own lifetime, biracial folks are able to claim that.
- Nov 07, 2020