For me, it was definitely an education in being grateful. And appreciating the civil liberties we have today, the natural liberties we have at home.

Because sometimes listening to something will connect to a feeling, it will allow you to emote subconsciously, and you don't even understand why you're in it.

You go home happy, you go to work happy, you make a better project because everybody loves it and loves each other.

There's still a place for marching for instance with the Black Lives Matter movement, we've seen the importance of causing a scene, being on the streets and making your demands and your voice heard.

Sometimes survival seems like submitting. And that's really hard on the spirit.

I enjoy being surprised.

Regardless of the project, whenever you're working on something, the best you can hope for is to be around good people.

I don't believe in breaks. Not yet. I'm too young. I'll find the next job to keep me busy between seasons.

The introduction of Harriet Tubman is going to be very exciting, she's a real life superhero so for us to be able to feature her this season is groundbreaking for a television series.

Democracy only works, as President [Barack] Obama spoke of in his farewell message, if it's driven by the people and the people stay active and vigilant and speak out and let their concerns be known.

A subject I'm particularly passionate about is the criminal justice system and almost all of the policies that impact people's lives are determined on a local level.

We can't help the way we're born. We can't help what we are, only what life we choose to make for ourselves.

Magic will find those with pure hearts, even when all seems lost.

What better time is there in our lives than when the two best of virtues-innocent gaiety and a boundless yearning for affection-are our sole objects of pursuit?

My type of humor is me not caring whether people know what I'm talking about or not.

I love nothing more than a good, rich, dark chocolate. It exhilarates. It satisfies.

Some affixes are wildly promiscuous.

England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality.

People like it when they understand something that they previously thought they couldn't understand. It's a sense of empowerment.

There is no shortcut to grieving.

The remarkable legion of the unremarked, whose individual opinions are not colorful or different enough to make news, but whose collective opinion, when crystallized, can make history.