The danger in having modern music tied to a period piece is that hearing something may take you out of the moment.

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.

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.

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.

Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies.

The dismissal of any of these people would send a useful signal to U.S. allies that the president has the nerve - and self-awareness - to make a change.

What we do flows from who we are.

I have to say I have never been comfortable with somebody else telling me what to do - in any way.

Lexicographers are language reporters.

Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along.

I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.

We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.

I've never met anybody in this world like me.

To be nothing - is that not, after all, the most satisfactory fact in the whole world?