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" The thing is about 'Vida,' we're telling a very simple family narrative. There's nothing fancy about it. "

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" For so long, the narrative - I'm speaking for Latinx - we've been invisible, the ones cleaning and taking care of your kids and doing your lawns. "

" Putting on makeup before work is a meditative exercise. It incites me to think about how I'll tackle my day. "

" 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. "

" I never wanted to be married. That was never a thing for me. "

" 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. "

" I was obsessed with everything about 'Outlander' - the stories, the way it looked. I thought, 'You know what? I'm going to go to Scotland, and I'm going to find my own 'Outlander.'' "

" I am so homesick every day of the week. "

" I'm queer - and queer, to me, is not being stuck in a binary and being kind of fluid. "

" I hope to see more Latino stories on television - not just on a personal level, but for us in the industry. We shouldn't just exist when a show is attempting to be diverse. We have good stories, and we are worth it. "

" I am equally a writer and an actor and a director. "

" I'm always writing. There's no stopping. It's just that you can't see it sometimes. "

" I don't think that 'Vida' is just for Latinos. I don't think 'One Day at a Time''s just for Latinos. "

" When you're a starving artist, you make do. It didn't matter that I didn't know where my rent was coming from. "

" I dress up cute sometimes to go to work, but TV writers don't! They just go however. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" In lots of ways, I've been trying to tell stories this way since I started writing plays: a female-centered story with queer, Latinx gaze. "

" 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. "

" When you change media, perception is changed and then policy is changed. "

" 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! "

" I'm not literary, and I'm not academic, and I don't think like a poet, so my stuff will never be like that. "

" I feel like a lot of us have a story to tell, it's just that we don't get the platform or the access or the opportunity. I don't know how the goddesses and gods and the stars aligned. I got the opportunity, and I do have to note that a Hispanic woman gave me that opportunity. "

" There is no 'generic' Latina. "

" 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. "

" I went in for a meeting with Marta Fernandez, and she said, 'We are looking for a female millennial show. Have you heard of the term 'chipster'?' And I was like, 'Of course - Chicana hipster.' "

" We don't have a lot of narrative on TV or film, mainstream film, of brown queers. Latina queers, I can't think of that many. "

" What I notice a lot about millennials is that they have agency over their sexuality. "

" I was a playwright who was still learning the ropes when Starz took a chance on me to create and showrun 'Vida.' They nurtured and supported me during every step of the strenuous process, and that is a debt that cannot be repaid. "

" The fact that I have a show on Starz, it's crazy. It's insane. "

" Glutton things, those are things that are dangerous for me. My grandma and my aunt died of diabetes; I'm borderline diabetic. "