All of a sudden, I was hearing stories about how difficult I was to work with, ridiculous rumors about drugs and what a diva I was. I never had to go….

It is far better to be free to govern or misgovern yourself than to be governed by anybody else.

I've been doing African dance all my life..

I would say that to listen is to become aware. To become truly informed. You will discover whatever you do..

I love sharing my story. It's endlessly healing..

I love the short story for being round, suggestive, insinuating, microcosmic. The story has both the inconvenience and the fascination of new beginni….

You get old and you realize there are no answers, just stories..

Even if you're in charge of the grand story there's still memory. The other stories do not go away..

Politics is cyclical..

Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living..

I think that people create the world that they live in. Your existence is very subjective, and you tell stories and organize the world outside of you….

Talking to people and hearing their stories, you learn a lot..

Stories change people while statistics give them something to argue about..

Each child’s story is worthy of telling. There shouldn’t be a sliding scale of death. The weight of it is crushing..

"Be Right Back," in which Hayley Atwell brings Domhnall Gleeson back from the dead using his social-media profile, sprang out of an unrelated convers….

Change is like that: you are no longer where you were; you are not yet where you will get; you are nowhere exactly..

The longer we work on the show, the more the writers just start surprising you..

I only have control over what I do..

Experience by itself is not science..

The power that comes from knowing the facts of history is dwarfed by the power that comes from being able to shape the stories about how that history….

One can really love only once..