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" I knew I wanted to write professionally and get paid. "
Courtney A. Kemp
Knew
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" I'd say it's far more challenging to be female and be a showrunner. People are not surprised to see a black person running this show, but the female aspect is the thing that I get asked about. "
Courtney A. Kemp
People
Running
Person
" Wherever I go, stuff accumulates. "
Courtney A. Kemp
Go
Wherever
Stuff
" If everyone knows the role they play, and they do their job - executing it well and with enthusiasm - it comes together successfully every time. "
Courtney A. Kemp
Time
Enthusiasm
Job
" 50 Cent is a brilliant marketer. "
Courtney A. Kemp
Brilliant
50 Cent
Cent
" Great power is setting a goal, working hard for it, and achieving it in exactly the way you expected with no consequences and no remainders after the long division is done. But does that happen to anyone? The unexpected always hitches a ride along with everything you planned. "
Courtney A. Kemp
Long
Great
Unexpected
" Humans are powerless, and even in our exercise of free will, either the Universe is gonna get down with your plan, or it isn't. "
Courtney A. Kemp
Exercise
Down
Free
" 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. "
Courtney A. Kemp
Strength
Love
Some
" The show runner's the boss until the network shows up. And then they're the boss, because it's their money. "
Courtney A. Kemp
Boss
Show
Network
" I love 'Archer.' That's one of the best-written shows out there. "
Courtney A. Kemp
Love
Out
I Love
" 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. "
Courtney A. Kemp
People
Doors
Opening
" I want to tell more stories about lying, dual lives, self-deception - those are my favorites. "
Courtney A. Kemp
Those
Want
Lying
" Knowing what I don't know helps me every day. "
Courtney A. Kemp
Knowing
Know
Every Day
" I want to be a strong voice, period. "
Courtney A. Kemp
Strong
Voice
Want
" The impetus for 'Power' was me writing about my dad, who was an advertising executive and very interested in image. He thought that perception was reality and what people thought of you was what was real about you. "
Courtney A. Kemp
Reality
People
Writing
" I say a prayer several times a day about what I can control and what I can't control. "
Courtney A. Kemp
Control
Prayer
I Can
" The revolution is that we can be anything. We don't have to be one thing or the other. The idea that it is my responsibility to represent only good black people... I mean, what are you talking about? That's not a character - that's a polemic. "
Courtney A. Kemp
Responsibility
Character
Good
" When human beings say they have power, it always makes me laugh a little bit. "
Courtney A. Kemp
Me
Power
Always
" Great partnerships thrive because the people need each other. "
Courtney A. Kemp
Thrive
Great
Partnerships
" I first became a showrunner at 36 years old. I had no experience doing this job, which is as complicated and multi-faceted as anything I'd ever tried. "
Courtney A. Kemp
Complicated
Experience
Job
" If you are other, you don't think twice about hiring people who are other. "
Courtney A. Kemp
Other
Hiring
You
" 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. "
Courtney A. Kemp
Women
Character
Play
" We use the word 'urban' to mean black or Latino, but that's not what the word means. It actually means 'from the city.' I'm not from the city. I'm from the suburbs of Connecticut. I grew up with mostly all white people. "
Courtney A. Kemp
White
Latino
Mean
" When we started on 'Power,' I was committed to respecting the differences among Spanish dialects: Dominican, Nuyorican, Mexican, etc. I wanted the language our characters spoke to be as specific as possible, to reflect New York as it is. "
Courtney A. Kemp
Power
New York
Language
" It... does... not... have... to... be... pointed out all the time. Like, 'Isn't it great that you're black, and you're a woman?' Isn't it great that the show's good? I would just love for it not to be a thing - for it just to be, like, super norm. "
Courtney A. Kemp
Black
Good
Great
" In college, I didn't know whether to hang out with the black kids or the white kids, and then I found the theatre kids, and I was like, 'Oh, it doesn't matter.' We were all weird and listening to Morrissey and wearing Doc Martens so that was my tribe. "
Courtney A. Kemp
College
Listening
Theatre
" There's this idea that you can have it all, but in my opinion, you can't - not if you're a perfectionist. "
Courtney A. Kemp
Perfectionist
Opinion
Idea
" Writers are, for the most part, crazy people. We're like Hephaestus of the forge. We're gnarled. We're curled over. We walk with a limp. "
Courtney A. Kemp
Crazy
People
Over
" My experience as a black woman in the industry is simply that often I was the only one in the room. Often I would be the only woman and the only person of color. Sometimes I would be one of several women but the only person of color. Sometimes I would be one of several people of color, but the only woman. "
Courtney A. Kemp
Women
Experience
People
" When you write a show, every character is you to some extent. "
Courtney A. Kemp
Write
Some
You
" I had very much wanted to be the very first black female editor-in-chief of 'Vogue.' Barring that, I wanted to work at 'Entertainment Weekly.' "
Courtney A. Kemp
Entertainment
Work
Black