A good rule of thumb for many things in life holds that things take longer to happen than you think they will, and then happen faster than you thought they could.
China is on a march toward rule of law and democracy.
I chose to defend human rights because I cannot maintain my silence in the face of injustice.
How a society treats its disabled is the true measure of a civilization.
The Chinese foreign ministry has said more than once that I am a free person. Did I do anything wrong by leaving my home?
Dictators are actually very fearful themselves. Even when they're asleep, they're afraid that others will take their powers away.
No matter what happens, I feel very good about the future.
It came from my mother. She was a singer, and literally every day of the week she sang at a different club in a different genre of music: country, R&B clubs, jazz clubs, church on Sunday morning where she was the music director, pop hits, soft rock. I grew up listening to all this music, so it was never one thing for me.
There’s something about it that makes other good habits easier.
I spend a long time casting, but once I've cast a film there's a reason why I selected those people. So I'm hands-on in selecting the cast, hands-off to see what they do with their characters, and hands-on again to offer suggestions.
Donald Trump is the least unpopular thing about today's Republican Party. I mean, the idea that a Mitch McConnell or a Paul Ryan could say, "Let's toss Trump overboard and return to our program of plutocratic politics, health care removal, massive income tax cuts for the affluent, deregulation of finance" - if they cut loose from Donald Trump, it's like, you know, storm in channel, continent cut off. If they cut loose from him, they are much likelier to sink.