Branden Jacobs-Jenkins I feel like I’m put in a position where I have to engage with what people bring to my work, which is an expectation for me to talk about race because it’s not normal for a black writer to be writing in the theatre. – Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Black Quotes Bring Quotes Engage Quotes Expectation Quotes Feel Quotes Normal Quotes People Quotes Position Quotes Race Quotes Talk Quotes Theatre Quotes Writer Quotes Writing Quotes The first theater subscription I ever bought was the August Wilson season at Signature. I remember thinking a whole season to one playwright was a great way for a master to do a victory lap. I identify as queer. I just don’t know what any of these labels mean.
Nikki Glaser It strikes me as pretty interesting and cool how girls support each other in this business. I’ve never felt so much support in my life than from my fellow female comedians. I attribute much of my success to some of them. – Nikki Glaser
Kate Atkinson I usually start writing a novel that I then abandon. When I say abandon, I don’t think any writer ever abandons anything that they regard as even a half-good sentence. So you recycle. I mean, I can hang on to a sentence for several years and then put it into a book that’s completely different from the one it started in. – Kate Atkinson
Alan Menken The job, when you write film underscore, is to be ignored. That comes with the gig, no question about it. – Alan Menken
Robert Gottlieb Almost the first thing you see after entering the Houdini exhibition at the Jewish Museum is a large-screen film of Harry Houdini hanging by his ankles upside-down from a tall building, high over a sea of men in fedoras, and thrashing his way out of a straitjacket. – Robert Gottlieb
Joyce Banda I want you to know that I don’t have any right, Malawi has no right to stop any president from coming to an African Union summit because that is an African Union meeting. – Joyce Banda
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