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Design Matters with Debbie Millman

Best of Design Matters: Sarah Jones

Design Matters with Debbie Millman

Design Matters Media

Arts, Design

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Known for her multi-character, one-person Broadway hit Bridge & Tunnel—Sarah Jones joins to talk about identity, community, social justice, and her relationship with her characters.

Transcript

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0:00.0

You know, it really was the bomb, but eventually we had to, like, we had to stop saying the

0:11.2

whole thing and, you know, with terrorism and everything, people will get confused.

0:14.1

So we stopped saying it.

0:15.1

You know, you can't even make a phone call.

0:16.1

It's like, oh my god.

0:17.1

But you know, you just say the whole thing to me again.

0:19.1

We just say the whole Dominican-American but never organization from others and babies.

0:21.9

You have to learn to say it really, really fast.

0:26.8

In the Ted Audio Collective, this is Design Matters with Debbie Milman.

0:33.8

For 17 years, Debbie Milman has been talking with some of the world's most creative people

0:37.8

about what they do, how they've got to be who they are, and what they're thinking about

0:41.8

and working on.

0:43.5

And now, some of those interviews appear in print in Debbie's brand new book, Why Design

0:48.6

Matters, Conversations with the world's most creative people.

0:52.6

It's coming out in February of this year.

0:55.6

And anticipation of the book were releasing interviews from the archives this month.

1:00.2

We thought it would be fun for listeners to hear not only some great interviews, but

1:04.0

also to hear how the podcasts evolved over the years.

1:07.6

So we've been releasing the oldest ones first and proceeding chronologically.

1:12.4

In April of 2017, Debbie spoke with playwright Sarah Jones about her relationship with their

1:18.2

characters.

1:19.2

I'm not them, and they are not me.

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