I act like a hopeful person, but I think that hope is based on having zero expectations.
Ana Kinsella, interview, AnOther, 5 September 2019 source ↗
The question
What do you need to believe in order to get through the day?Originally asked
Vox, to writers and thinkers, 9 Questions, 2017
Vox used this exact prompt throughout its named 9 Questions series on intellectual habits.
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Ja’Tovia Gary
visual artist and filmmaker
It requires me to be in prayer and meditation daily, or else I will literally spiral out. It’s something that I put at the forefront of my life.
David Hare
Playwright and screenwriter
People need justice.
Steve Jobs
Co-founder and chief executive of Apple; co-founder of NeXT; chief executive of Pixar
Technology is nothing. What’s important is that you have a faith in people, that they’re basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they’ll do wonderful things with them.
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Jeff Goodell, Rolling Stone, conducted at NeXT's offices in Redwood City, 16 June 1994
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Rosa Parks
Civil-rights activist
I try to not think of those things that we cannot control, but I think if we continue to work with positive attitudes, conditions will be better for more people.
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It’s a gift to let yourself be changed by a person, and for a person to allow you to change them.
Carrie helped me keep to a strict rhythm, but all the essays took shape in very idiosyncratic ways.
I worked as an editor until I joined the New Yorker , and so I’m an extremely tough self-editor. I also love being edited. I love a hard edit. It’s a privilege to be edited hard.
I’m always afraid of false certainty about things
At a basic level, I think something is successful if I think I got myself anywhere new at all.
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