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" Having long hair has allowed me to enter orthodox or religiously conservative situations with slightly more ease. "

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" My parents separated when I was young, and as a result, my father had to learn how to braid our hair on the nights my sisters and I would stay with him. We would arrive to school the next morning with these incredibly endearing lopsided braids he had fashioned. This may have expedited the process of my learning how to braid my own hair. "

" We did a play of 'Frog and Toad' at my elementary school. And I'm not sure if this is part of the book or it was something that we made up on our own, but I auditioned to play the black hole, which somehow makes sense to me. "

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" I actually find it a lot easier to interview people I don't agree with because I'm far more curious about how they've arrived at that place. "

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" I think why I was attracted to making something with Vice is that level of intimacy that you get as the viewer, getting to see some of that production element where we don't exactly know what we're doing, where we're going, or even if it's a good idea. "

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" In China, I had my body lit on fire. And in Russia, I took a bath in reindeer blood, which apparently had some kind of youth-enhancing elements. "

" I have always been very into pagan hairstyles. If I were alive a long time ago, I would probably have been burned at the stake. "

" The Congo is so fun. The ideal body type coveted by women in the Congo is this extremely curvaceous body. They're going through a number of extreme measures to get that kind of body form, and one of them is by using bouillon cubes. "

" Maintaining a sense of humor is key to getting people to also focus on the crises at hand. "

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