Word: gilbert
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...growing up. For big chunks of my childhood I was being raised by a single mom who was working and putting herself through school. I think also one of the inspirations I had was a comic book called “Love and Rockets” by Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez. They were the first guys to get compliments in terms of female characters. I immersed myself in their work so deeply that when it came time to write my own stories it wasn’t even a conscious effort to say, “Now I need...
...difficult to say no to BlackCAST, she says, but even before the final cast lists went up Elmore talked about the importance of diversifying her experience. “If I only did Sunken Garden Children’s Theater I would feel limited; if I only did Gilbert & Sullivan I’d feel limited; or if I only did shows by white playwrights and I never did shows written by Hispanics or Asians I’d feel limited,” Elmore says. “I think that people who are considered mainstream?...
Eating the chips slowly is an "experience that isn't engaging, so your mind is free to wander to all of the other things you could have been doing," Gilbert says. The same phenomenon occurs while driving, when you move into the right lane, only to have the traffic stall as the left lane speeds by. Suddenly, "it really hurts to be in the right lane," he says. "You're not driving, you're not engaged, you're not navigating. You're just sitting and your mind can wander and you can think about all the things you might have...
...moments when we are actually able to dedicate that level of comparison to an experience while we're having it are few and far between, Gilbert says. In the vast majority of scenarios, "the roads we don't take in life disappear a lot more quickly than we think they will...
...what does this mean for how we should contemplate our next big decision? For Gilbert, it's simple. "When looking into the future, never trust your gut. That doesn't mean it's always wrong, you should just never trust it. It never hurts to stop...