“I worked really hard in college, and I came out a completely different...” — Merle Dandridge Quote

I worked really hard in college, and I came out a completely different person and performer than when I went in. I did the work, and I found a craft.

You can have a great, deep connection with somebody and still disagree with their actions.

In the theater, you have to speak so people in the last row of the peanut gallery can hear you. With television, the camera does that work for you.

'Greenleaf' never mocks religion. It reminds us that people in churches are human, and no one is perfect.

I enjoy hearing from different people who have turned their personal struggles into something that can inspire others and encourage people to push past hard times.

Work on your craft, and your career will come. Work on your community, and your career will come. But just work on your career, and you'll have neither a craft nor a community.

Writing is far too hard work to say what someone else wants me to. Serving it as a craft, using it as a way of growing in my own understanding, seems to me to be a beautiful way to live. And if that product is shareable with other people, so much the better.

Craft and art and discipline in what you do will make you happy.

I'm a photographer, period. I love photography, the immediacy of it. I like the craft, the idea of saying 'I'm a photographer.'