With Victor Frankenstein, he had no doubts. The whole movie, he has very little doubt, which was a very freeing thing to play up until the moment of creation. And then after that, it's kind of all doubt. And that's when he kind of goes in within himself and ossifies. But Josh is very different. Josh is mostly doubt and mostly reactionary.
You can just take an idea, you can write it in, and then something can get created for you. But very importantly, you can still move into the Canva's object editor and lay things out, collaborate, edit away.
I wanted to do this show that didn't exist when I was a kid, and I knew the talent was out there. You know, I found Bruno Mars and put him on the show when he was two feet tall. I wanted those things that Johnny didn't do.
I always love having at least one move or one groove that my mama can do, in a video. But I think it allows dancers and non-dancers alike to feel like, "Oh, I like that move. I can do that whenever the song comes on."
I always put 1,000 percent of my heart and time and energy into anything I create. And people can feel heart, they can feel passion. And I think it translates through the screen.
The story of black comedy, it has always moved through contradictions like that. Moments of limitation that eventually open the door for something bigger and something better.
I literally loved writing from the very first time I read Nikki Giovanni's poetry. Loved it. And for me, one of the most powerful things about Nikki Giovanni is she made the ordinary so beautiful.
I literally loved writing from the very first time I read Nikki Giovanni's poetry. Loved it... I could smell the lotion between my grandmother's legs when she would braid my hair when I read Nikki Giovanni. Like, I love that. I wanna write like that.
Creativity and talent and drive are not the only things that make authors. Writing is something that requires quite a lot of time and time is very expensive and the piece that you need to have that time is expensive.
When there are no words for some things, that's where the blues comes in, that's where the music. And yet another affirmation for me, in terms of how people have received this work, it's incredibly affirming that audiences, many audiences, have made the connection between the pain of what I was experiencing and the birth of the music.
India has a rich and vibrant culture but yet it's not really looked at by designers so seriously because it's seen as traditional and handmade and design tends to be mechanized. We can bring some of that humanity and the handmade quality into the work that we do as designers.
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Underscored — save the words that stop you in your tracks.
