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Donald Glover in an interview with The New Yorker: “Authenticity is the journey of figuring out who you are through what you make.”
he was who I wanted to be when I grew up. He’s one of the great nonfiction writers of our time, a genius of reportage and the profile, someone who could take any curious whim and turn it into a compelling book.
Her heroes were the performance artists of the downtown scene: Spalding Gray, Anna Deavere Smith, the Five Lesbian Brothers, Eric Bogosian, Rachel Rosenthal, Karen Finley, and most of all, our idols, the Wooster Group.
Rainn Wilson • The Bassoon King: Art, Idiocy, and Other Sordid Tales from the Band Room
According to Goethe, Byron’s poetical power eclipsed all other mortals, and he was not held back by petty morality, being possessed of a virtue of which the bourgeoisie had no conception.
Alan Cardew • Lord Byron: The Perils and Glories of a Classical Education
As I got older, the thrill of receiving a mix CD was supplanted by the thrill of making one. I burned them for everyone I had a crush on in middle school, painstakingly adding and removing and re-adding songs to the tracklists, changing up the order (and changing it, and changing it, and changing it again) until I was satisfied that it said "I like... See more
Drew Schwartz • A Eulogy for the Mix CD, the Best Way to Tell Someone 'I Like You'
He is an amazing man and artist, and his films My Dinner with Andre and Vanya on 42nd Street were HUGE inspirations to me (watch them!). For a few weeks he once gathered a group of lost actor souls in a loft in the Garment District, and we would do these strange body exercises called plastiques.