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I would have been completely brainwashed by this lopsided and racist view of the world if it weren't for my father. He was a deep thinker and an irrepressible problem solver. He was a Black Socrates, asking why and then spoiling ready-made replies. ↗

— Walter Mosley

#been #black #brainwashed #completely #deep

I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things. ↗

— Walter Mosley

#dealing #fiction #fiction writers #i #i think

When I turned 59, I looked at that as the first day of my 60th year, so I've been 60 for the last 365 days, in my opinion. So I've been thinking all this year, I'm 60 - this is the time when I need to get some stuff done. ↗

— Walter Mosley

#been #day #days #done #first

People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life. ↗

— Carrie-Anne Moss

#certain point #certain way #design #how #life

When you play a doctor, you have to look like you can do it but you don't actually go and do it. It's not like you learn how to cut open somebody and go do surgery. You have to think of a human being and not play the idea of what that would look like. ↗

— Carrie-Anne Moss

#being #cut #doctor #go #how

I don't think any of us could have possibly anticipated how successful Mad Men has been. When we were working on the pilot, we loved it. We thought it was special. We hoped and prayed it'd be a success. But, we didn't count on it. ↗

— Elizabeth Moss

#any #been #could #count #hoped

I love working with male actors, and I think there's a tendency to write really interesting characters that would work solely alongside men where they would be in a man's world and have to deal with that, and it creates a lot of interesting storylines. For me, it's kind of circumstantial, but I definitely enjoy it. ↗

— Elizabeth Moss

#characters #creates #deal #definitely #enjoy

I think every day there is some new actress comes out and inspires me to do something else... like Hilary Swank. After she did Boys Don't Cry, I felt this yearning to go out and be even half as good as she was. ↗

— Elizabeth Moss

#after #comes #cry #day #did

I've heard people say, 'I love how the characters never say what they're really thinking, and I love how things are so open-ended and you just never know what's going to happen.' Do you know what I mean? So it's an opinion, you know? I've heard very few, if any criticisms of the show, and I think that it obviously is working, whatever we're doing. ↗

— Elizabeth Moss

#characters #criticisms #do you know #doing #few

Now I can walk into a room full of people I don't know and do my job. That's quite a massive thing to learn, I think. ↗

— Kate Moss

#i #i can #i think #into #job