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Working in movement and space with the group of Moe, Fedor, and Linn, was a lot of fun and very eye opening, we just bounced off of each other and were able to give ideas and just see what stuck.

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For the longest time, I thought I was okay with the label of being a "woman" but that has recently changed. But gender is a presentation, a spectrum. I have always been comfortable with either gender. Theatre even helped me even more. In my presentation on stage I've realized that I don't need to align myself with one, and now feel more comfortable.

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I've worked with several people in my short life compared to others, but I know that not many experience. But this goes both ways of not only accepting of others but of yourself as well.

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I think this is the first instance where I questioned what gender is. What does it mean to be a woman?

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I watched this movie way too much as a kid and I think is the reason for the vivid dreams I have today. But it has definitely influenced me to create stories from my dreams.

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The relationship of my friend group and ex-friend

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The relationship of my friend group and ex-friend

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This is another relationship that taught me patience but it also taught me to set my boundaries. I have to stand up for myself.

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It shouldn't just drive us to follow dreams, but in anything we do I believe in doing your passion, and bringing it to the table.

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I think there are opinions that go against people's entire beings and those people don't have respect for others. But it's something I do have for most people.

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I've always loved animated movies, even now I still happily enjoy them. But they express the joys of life in a different lens. We see characters that are necessarily human or real, but we see them explore life the same way we do. It drew me towards art and drawing. I wanted to express those same human emotions that I saw in those movies in my drawings. I wanted to reflect life so badly. I just drew and drew on whatever I could place my pencil on.

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I've always been curious, dangerously so. But I was always supported to explore what I wanted to know. Karate? Get signed up. Dance? You got it. A summer play? Let's audition. I didn't make it? Let's make our own play! I think back on those times now, and I ask questions without fear. Knowledge is power, and the worst thing that can happen from asking is getting the answer no.

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I found this artist Mitski through an animatic I saw on Youtube and once I get attached to one song I end up looking through the rest of their work. I usually end up liking all of their songs so they end up on my Liked Songs playlist in Spotify. But about Mitski, she puts all of her feelings in her music. I feel her pain, her love, her hate, resentment, whatever you may feel she has felt at one point too. I want to be an artist like her, and put my full being into my work. My art is therefore an extension of myself.

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Honesty, one of my biggest values in life. Honestly doesn't come with out fear and vulnerability. To be able to expose a side of yourself that you have been hiding for far too long. If we hide behind a mask of lies, that we wear for others, we forget who we are or who we ever were. You need to be honest with yourself and others.

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I think we're best friends on the same wavelength. We usually think what the other is thinking and can figure out the others reaction to something will be. She's one of my influences to become better as an artist, we push each other to be better. Some people might even say I love her. An unrequited love, but love none the less. She's a gorgeous, kind, smart, talented, funny, caring, and unique person. Even if we met before highschool and became friends before then, I love the connection we have now.

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This relationship has tested my patience, my love, and my trust. I haven't been in a serious relationship ever in my life, and I gave them a chance. I don't regret the ways things ended, it was never my choice but it taught me that people can believe what they want and you can't really change their minds. They thought horrible things about my family, and as much as I hated that, I knew that no matter what I said, he was stuck in that mindset.

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I've always looked up to my mom, she's always been so strong emotionally and physically! But she's always supported me in anything I do. She's showed me love and support, even when I'm mad at her, even when I'm fighting with her. She's pushed me to the person I am today. I don't know what I would do if I lost her. She listens to me when I ramble or when I just want to talk about a dream I had last night. She's the one who taught me to listen actively.

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Another book/movie that has inspired me for years. I've always felt that these characters were fleshed out and seen as people. It shows the highs and lows of adolescence.

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I believe that our actions speak louder than our words. With that, trusting people has to be done with more than, "I trust you.". What actions have you done that leads someone to believe you're trustworthy? I like to think of this value as "Show don't tell" like in film, we have the ability to tell a story without actually telling someone their actions.

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Anastasia has been one of my inspirations to follow in art and musical theatre and animation. Watching this movie again today, still gets me excited.

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When I was younger, I never wanted to fit in with others. My parents have stories about when I was in school I didn't want to wear the same shirt everyone did. It's strange, I obviously don't do that now, but from a beginning I wanted to stand out and make a name for myself.

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When I was growing up, I was a really scared kid. One day though, I sat through my first horror movie. It was District 9, maybe not necessarily a horror film. Since then I've always enjoyed horror films and was excited to go to haunted houses. It was a fun type of scared where no one gets hurt. But horror has influenced me, by bringing on this world of experimental ideas of what truly scares us. Is it really about a scary monster? Or the monsters that reside within us that are far scarier. Horror is a genre to study the human condition, specifically our fears.