23 June, 2018

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Miles Davis & John Coltrane: The Final Tour Zinzi Clemmons: What We Lose

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.”
–Pablo Picasso

3 June, 2018

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Bryan Fogel, Netflix: Icarus (Movie) Peter Brook: Battlefield

“A blank piece of paper is God’s way of telling us how hard it to be God.”
Sidney Sheldon

26 May, 2018

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Oumou Sangare: Worotan Dr. Joe Dispenza: Breaking The Habit of Being Yourself, How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One

“It is perfectly okay to write garbage–as long as you edit brilliantly.”
–C. J. Cherryh

20 May, 2018

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Dave Chappelle: Stand Up Comedy Special J. B. Peires: The Dead Will Arise

“Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use.”
Mark Twain

13 May, 2018

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Michael Schur, NBC: The Good Place (TV) Pema Chödrön: Tonglen, The Path of Transformation

“It’s none of their business that you have to learn to write. Let them think you were born that way.”
Ernest Hemingway

6 May, 2018

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Ani DiFranco: Ani DiFranco Madeleine L'Engle: A Wrinkle in Time

“I try to create sympathy for my characters, then turn the monsters loose.”
Stephen King

28 April, 2018

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Salif Keita: Papa Bhante Henepola Gunaratana: Mindfulness in Plain English

“Doing a movie or a play is like running a marathon. Doing a television show is like running until you die.”
–David Mamet

21 April, 2018

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David Letterman, NBC: Late Night with Seth Meyers Bryan Stevenson: Just Mercy

“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?'”
–Martin Luther King, Jr.