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" I think, as an actor, when you're starting off early in your career, you're kind of just seeing what lands. But 'Veronica Mars' definitely primed me to look for surprising, dynamic women. It took me awhile to realize how cool that job was. "

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" I was born and raised in Los Angeles. I split my time between the West Coast and the East. "

" 'Dear White People' started a conversation about race. It's such a difficult thing to talk about, especially in America because of our history. I love that you can confront it with humour and with satire. "

" I don't spend a lot of time contending with the fact that time is not endless. "

" What was so exciting for me about Wakanda and seeing 'Black Panther' was how incredible the women were in it. "

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" I try to pick interesting projects, the kind of projects that I would want to watch. "

" I think we just need to have a demand for fresh and nuanced movies. "

" As a kid, I loved going to lots of thrift stores with my parents. There was a period where I thought it was embarrassing, and then I started to get older - I realized they were really cool. "

" The term 'breakout' always makes me think of an inmate or some butterfly emerging out of a cocoon. "

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" Time's Up is really about safety and equity in workplaces, and that's a very multi-layered demand. "

" There are some people who don't want to deal with the fact that we are not forever. Some people decide to live life to the fullest. "

" I've felt this real need to ground my work in my ideals. "

" Death is just a part of life, you know? It's what makes all of life more vibrant. It's coming whether we want to accept it or not. "

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Want

" I was gregarious as a kid, but I think the idea of actually getting to know people, I'm just shy. It sort of takes me a minute to want to sit down and talk about myself. "

" I'm someone that likes to not think too binary about human qualities. "

" I think when any one kind of film does well, it creates a precedent and paves the way for more like it. "

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" The beauty of working on a show like 'Westworld' is we're painting a not-too-distant future and talking about an aspirational sense of what power looks like in the future. "

" I am multiracial, and I went through different phases - at one point, I listened to Wu-Tang and hip-hop, and then the next year I listened to Joni Mitchell. "

" I like to think I'm one of the least athletic people in real life. I don't do a whole lot when I'm left to my own devices except wield forks and knives. "

" There was a period when I had a hard time reconciling all the different parts of me in a way that I thought would make sense to others. "

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Hard

Way

" I'm really excited about this generation of young women that can look at a screen and see some brown people in space. "

" I eat almonds professionally, and I can't get enough of Yerbe Mate Cranberry Synergy Kombucha! "

" It's so rare to have an ensemble cast of women. "

" I grew up listening to a lot of Massive Attack and Portishead. "

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Lot

" I grew up partially in L.A. and partially in New York. In L.A., anything goes because it's really temperate. There aren't any fashion rules dictated by weather, whereas in New York, of course, there are. New York is seasonal, and also it's a fashion mecca, so people are a little more aware of how they put things together. "

" The Time's Up campaign is for everyone, in all capacities, contributions big and small. "

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" I think I've realized that when you are aiming to create a real body of work, you are as much defined by the things you don't do as by the things you do. "

" Media truly has the power to create and shift culture. "

" Norse mythology is mystifying and fantastic and totally confusing, but you can draw a lot of inspiration from it. "

" I grew up as a kid looking at artists like David Bowie and Prince; I really admired them. "

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