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" 50 and I are extremely close, so all that social media drama? It's just for the show. "
Courtney A. Kemp
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" I don't want to be seen in a way where all I can do is what people expect of me. "
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" I always wanted to make a show that had everything I wanted to watch, as opposed to just one or two things. "
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" I think television is about the characters you want to see again, and so you want to invite these people into your home. And certainly, seeing them get into bad situations and then watching them have to get themselves out, that's always super satisfying. "
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" Every writer should be able to write anything if you do the research and you're sensitive enough to ask the questions. "
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" There's always going to be a part of me that wants an Emmy. Truthfully, I'm probably more motivated by people being entertained. I'm more motivated by people being like, 'Oh snap! Did you see that?' "
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" When I was a little girl, my imagination was what helped me deal with some sort of negative elements in my childhood. "
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" Not many people get to create a television show that actually makes it on the air. "
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" Around me, there's always music playing. It just calms me down; it soothes me. It helps me write. It helps me with my mood. "
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" The show runner's the boss until the network shows up. And then they're the boss, because it's their money. "
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" 50 Cent and I really started to bond over our love for music. The first conversations we had were about Curtis Mayfield. "
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" When it comes to power as it functions between humans, it all comes down to desire. If you know what someone wants, you can control them. It is as simple as that. And the reverse is also true: If you have control over your own desires, no one will ever own you. As humans, we are plagued with desire - it consumes us, it fuels us, it destroys us. "
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" I thought I was going to be a professor; then I ran screaming from there into magazine journalism. "
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" I am not going to say that only people of color can write people of color, because that means only white people can write white people, and that's not OK. "
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" There are so many different things that create an alchemy of success. Just like there are so many different things that create an alchemy of a failure. "
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" Being a showrunner is doing a bit of everything. It's not just writing. It's also management: managing actors, managing producers, managing a crew, being kind to people, being a good boss, observing deadlines. "
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" God is in control of everything. "
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" There's hip-hop music in 'Power,' but the show is not about the hip-hop industry. "
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" People are realizing that there is a financial consequence to not opening doors. It doesn't mean that they are any more inclusive in their hearts - it means they're more inclusive in their wallets. "
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" I'm seeing more and more people of color do what I do as showrunners, and that's so great. I would love to get to the point where we don't have to talk about it anymore. "
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" Obviously I'm not from 50's background - I'm from Westport, Connecticut, which is as far away from his background as you can get, right? Growing up in Westport, for a long time I was the only black person living there for miles. "
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" I really do love male characters, in some ways, for the fact that they get surprised when they're vulnerable. Women are more surprised by their strength. "
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" I love Pusha T and The Clipse. "
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" What I'm about to say won't be popular, but it's true: If being a television showrunner is the job you want, and you are a woman, I would not suggest you have children. The reality is that you just cannot do both well. "
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" Any underrepresented audience loves to see themselves on TV, but what's more important is that we're writing about universal themes - good versus evil, can you change yourself? These themes resonate for everyone. "
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" Comedians are on the road so much that when they're just getting to act and sit in one place, they're really grateful and just ready. "
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" I really try to plot in a fearless fashion. I try not to care about not knowing the answer before I get there; I just jump in first and see what happens. "
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" When I first arrived in Los Angeles from New York in 2004 to try to break into television, I couldn't believe how segregated it was - how many neighborhoods were nearly all-white or all-black or -Asian or -Latino. "
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" The baseline character in a lot of Western literature is a man. So we, as women, do a lot of suspending of our disbelief to experience a novel or a play or a movie through that male character. "
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