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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 had never heard this term before - gente-fication - which is also happening in Portland, Houston; it's happening in a lot of cities. It's upwardly mobile Latinx who want to come back to their neighborhoods where they grew up - or it's Latinx moving to L.A. and looking for a Latinx neighborhood to live or open a business. "

" To me, 'Kita y Fernanda' is very much an American story, and I know some people are going to think it's a Latina story, but it's about shifting people's paradigms and views of what it is to be American. "

" Other people started taking me seriously before I took myself seriously. "

" 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. "

" It's mountains. The air is crisp. It's peaceful. You don't get spring break in Guanajuato. "

" 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'm always in the car in L.A., so I see the people I work with - and, thank God, I adore the people I work with - but it's a little lonely. "

" 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 want to stay in Chicago. "

" When I got to 'Looking,' I didn't know that you could write stuff and they would put it on TV. That was that experience. My boss was Andrew Haigh and he came from film; he had never done TV. It was his first TV show, and he was running it. And I think he was like, 'Write it, and we'll put it on.' It was lovely. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" So many times, shows say they're set somewhere - like in Chicago, 'The Good Wife' - but it doesn't feel like Chicago. "

" 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. "

" The hierarchy plays out in the writers room, and you, as a staff writer, need to know your place. "

" 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. "

" At Shondaland, six out of nine writers were of color - not Latinx, but I was like, 'Wait, I can do that but for the whole room?' 'Atlanta' had done that, then I can do that. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Shouldn't you be able to tell your stories from your point of view? We're dealing with that with 'Looking' where some queers are like, 'These guys are so boring! They don't represent me!' But no show can represent everything, so is it OK for us, in 'Looking,' to write about these three men and their world? "

" 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. "

" I'm interested in people's darkness - and humor in the darkness. "

" 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. "

" I have been watching male programming all my life. And I'm completely interested in it. Like, I love 'Breaking Bad' and I like 'Game of Thrones.' "

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

" I am not a quiet person. "

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