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'Chewing Gum Dreams' should make you look twice at the girl shouting on the bus and not just cuss her off from your life. Michaela Coel

Life Dreams You Girl Gum Look Make Chewing Chewing Gum Off Just Cuss Bus Should Shouting Your Twice Her

I'm massively open-minded to pretty much anything. Michaela Coel

Pretty Pretty Much Anything Open-Minded Massively Anything Much

I believe there are some great things that I've taken from the Bible in terms of loving the world and trying to be kind. There are a lot of good things to take from the Bible, and I like to think I try to apply them to my life. Michaela Coel

Life Good Great Bible Good Things World Be Kind Great Things Try My Life Believe Think Kind Some Take Taken Like Terms Lot Trying Loving Them Things Apply

In drama school, they do these big shows and period dramas, and I felt that none of those shows were representing me as a person, and I knew I wouldn't be cast in any of those when I left school. I decided to write my own one-woman show, and that was called 'Chewing Gum Dreams.' Michaela Coel

Dreams Me School Big Own Drama Drama School Dramas Those Gum One-Woman My Own Cast Write Knew Period Felt None Were Chewing Chewing Gum Left Person Any Representing Decided Show Shows

Socialisation is not optional. It's an inescapable contract, and our birth into the world is our signature of agreement. Norms and ideologies vary from society to society, and most of them weren't formed during our lifetimes but were handed down from one generation to the next. Michaela Coel

The unpredictability of the weather, the increasing possibility of intelligence introducing a species more powerful than ours, the growing uncertainty that animals can or should be slaughtered for our pleasure, has led many of us to start asking more complex questions about what is and isn't normal. Michaela Coel

Intelligence Weather Animals Increasing Our Pleasure Complex Ours Possibility Introducing Unpredictability About More Uncertainty Powerful Led Normal Questions Than Us Asking Should Many Growing Species Start Slaughtered

We can put fear of the future in front of us to block us, or behind us to drive us forward. I feel like telling all the people who look like me to start trying to write. You don't know it's possible because it's not often in front of you. Michaela Coel

Future Me You People Fear Drive Possible Telling Write Put Feel Like Know Look Because Block Trying Front Often Behind Us Who Forward Start

Don't sit there and complain. Rub your hands together and figure out what to do. Michaela Coel

Together Sit Complain Out Hands Your Figure Rub

I have to go to sleep with music. Michaela Coel

Music Go Sleep

I love listening to audiobooks - I always lose my glasses, but if I have an audiobook, I don't need them. Michaela Coel

Love Glasses Listening Lose Always Them Need

We live in this era where we really enjoy being offended, although only on the Internet. I don't know how beneficial it is. I wonder if we live in an age where we don't have power, yet somehow feel we have virtual power. But I feel like it's a distraction from real life. Michaela Coel

Life Age Offended Internet Power Real Life Live Enjoy Virtual Beneficial Distraction Somehow Only Feel Like Know Although How Real Era Wonder Being Where Really

I over-write! Michaela Coel

I see my shows like Gandhi, and I've got little baby Gandhis, and they are changing the world. I know that I'm a bit delusional about that, but I do think of them like Gandhi. They are not celebrities: they are like Gandhi and Mother Teresa. Michaela Coel

When I think of the things that I want to write, I can never say them out loud because I know how crazy they sound. I know what things sound like when you haven't actually worked on the script, so I don't go around saying some of these ideas because they just sound awful. Michaela Coel

Saying Crazy You Think Say Out Some Write Never Like Ideas Know Because Around How Sound Go Loud Just Want Script Them Worked Actually Awful Things

I don't know what it would have been like to grow up with a man in the house. Michaela Coel

Man Would Like Know House Been Up Grow Grow Up

It was only when I went to sixth-form college that I encountered boys. Michaela Coel

College Only Boy Encountered

Growing up on our estate, we were all different colours, but we were all really poor. I never really realised that black was a problem for some people. Michaela Coel

People Problem Black Some People Our Some Never Colours Were Up Different Estate Realised Different Colours Poor Really Growing Growing Up

'Chewing Gum' is a sitcom set on an estate in east London. Its central character is a girl from a Pentecostal background who decides to embark on a more worldly lifestyle - it's about adolescence 10 years too late. In my dreams, everybody is watching it, finding out about my world and realising it's not what they imagined. That it's not terrifying. Michaela Coel

Dreams Character Too Late World Girl Too Worldly Everybody Late Background Embark East Out Finding Gum Pentecostal London About Adolescence More Lifestyle Terrifying Years Chewing Chewing Gum Sitcom Estate Decide Central Realising Who Watching Set Imagined

I am really weird. Michaela Coel

Weird Am Really

I love Issa Rae. I adore her. Michaela Coel

Love Adore Her

We need to encourage black women to know that they are authors of their own destiny, that they have important stories to tell, and that they are capable, so magically capable, of writing them and creating important pieces of work that will live forever in history. Michaela Coel

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