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" People in L.A. think I'm insane to go back to Chicago during the winter. It's because I love my apartment and fleece leggings and my friends. "
Tanya Saracho
Friends
Go
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" Young men and women of color get told 'no' by so many people. But just listen to your inner voice. Amplify it. Make it strong! "
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" I didn't understand that TV writing wasn't writing; it was pitching. "
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" Pleasures. I had to cut them back so I can write. And it's worked! It so has. But I am the most boring human on the planet. "
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" Any time you have to move in two days, it's crazy. It's like, 'Who am I going to get to take care of my cat? "
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" When 'Vida' got the green light, Starz sent me this picnic basket of Jamie Fraser red wine and all these 'Outlander' things that I'll never open because it's like my sacred thing. "
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" No one guided me through it, but here is how it happened: I was in New York doing a play, and an agent got in touch with me and said he wanted to take me out for lunch. In the theatre, they never want to take you out for lunch, so I thought, 'Yes!' I went, I ordered steak, and he told me he thought I should write for TV. "
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" White, older showrunners told me, 'Why do you want to hire an all-Latinx writers room? Hire who's best for the show - don't get caught up in that.' And I was like, 'No.' For such an intimate show about the details of a culture? You can't fake that. The room needs to reflect the makeup of the show. "
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" When I was in school, I didn't get exposed to Latino playwrights. "
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" Spanglish is very natural. It's however it comes out. But there are a few patterns that all of us, especially Mexican-American writers, just noticed in how we utilized Spanglish. It comes out of necessity when you can't find the next word. You go to whatever language will serve you best. "
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" What I notice a lot about millennials is that they have agency over their sexuality. "
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" Write about your experiences! When I moved to L.A., I didn't have any friends, and the office janitor was the person who I saw the most. He would always come in at around 10:00 P.M., and I would still be at my desk, so I wrote a play about a first-year TV writer and the friendship that she developed with the janitor. Our stories matter. "
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She
" I'm always writing. There's no stopping. It's just that you can't see it sometimes. "
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" You can't visit Guanajuato without going to the mummy museum. "
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Museum
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" Nothing against resorts or Cancun or Carlos 'n Charlie's, but Guanajuato is different. If you want history, culture, and peace, it's perfect. "
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" I'm sad about my theatre career, but I've also fallen a bit in love with TV! "
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Career
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" There is no 'generic' Latina. "
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" My first time up to bat as a showrunner, what I did was hire an all-Latinx writers room. And it's a diverse Latinx writers room - we have an Afro-Dominican and Texicans and Chileans. It's diverse within its Latinidad. "
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" Sometimes people of color walk into these spaces that are dominated by the dominant culture, and we have to be better, not make as much trouble. "
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" So many times, shows say they're set somewhere - like in Chicago, 'The Good Wife' - but it doesn't feel like Chicago. "
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" I never wanted to be married. That was never a thing for me. "
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" Glutton things, those are things that are dangerous for me. My grandma and my aunt died of diabetes; I'm borderline diabetic. "
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" I am equally a writer and an actor and a director. "
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" I am so homesick every day of the week. "
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" I always was missing that female brown queer perspective, and I think in 'Vida' we have that. A lot of things I wanted to touch on and deal with, I get to do here. "
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" When you change media, perception is changed and then policy is changed. "
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" I don't think that 'Vida' is just for Latinos. I don't think 'One Day at a Time''s just for Latinos. "
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" I have 16 plays, and we don't ever do subtitles. You can't do subtitles in the theater, so I was like, 'I'm not gonna do subtitles.' You'll never lose the story. There might be a little joke that you might miss, but you'll never miss the story, even in the Spanglish of it. "
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" A lot of the time, because we don't have many Latinx scenarios on the landscape, not just in television or film and other media, we haven't gotten the chance to tell our story from our point of view. "
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" I always have something big enough to say as a playwright. It's storytelling. "
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" I just wanted to put together the best Latinx writers. I didn't care about the level.They have a passion for 'Vida' in a different way, in a higher way. "
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