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

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Aldis Hodge
Age: 38
Born: 1986
Born: September 20
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Television Actor
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It's important for us to vote in mid-term off year elections in the times where state legislators and mayors offices are being vacated. These are the elections that actually impact the way we live oftentimes more than the President. So we have to pay attention to those things as well.
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When my brother was a child, he kept telling my mom he wanted to be in the box. She didn't get it - he was two or three years old and kept saying he wanted to be in the box. She finally realized he was talking about the television.
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They don't really focus on that history here in America. I remember growing up as a kid, history class was very washed-over. They didn't really get into the gritty bits of slavery. It's a very, very small section in the history books. It's not something they really touch on directly with American curriculums.
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I remember my mom had a conversation with Sam Jackson about what she should do with our careers and what the next step should be I was eight and my brother was nine. He said, You need to get them on Broadway.
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I also think it's important for us to hold our elected officials accountable and part of how you do that is simple, call them and let them know when you agree or disagree with what their decisions are and suggest how they should come out on certain legislation that important to you.
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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.
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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.
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Some of my job consists of me drafting and making technical drawings. So everything I did back then has materialized into something substantial for me today. Whatever kids are into, that might be their thing.
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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.
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With any good projects, I feel like the off-screen chemistry factors on-screen. It's great when you don't have to force it, but when it's not there you better focus on getting there, because as we live with these characters we spend more time with one another than we do our families at home.
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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.
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The danger in having modern music tied to a period piece is that hearing something may take you out of the moment.
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I was too young to live on campus. I just went back and forth on the bus. Eventually I got my own car and thought I was Mr. Man, so I started hot wheelin' it.
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Sometimes survival seems like submitting. And that's really hard on the spirit.
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Regardless of the project, whenever you're working on something, the best you can hope for is to be around good people.
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The time frame and how people treated each other was upsetting, but what's great about this story is that they really focus on the strengths of these people and the strengths of the culture, of who these Americans were. That, actually, is uplifting.
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It's crazy how intelligent kids can be at a very young age and how they know what they know.
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I don't believe in breaks. Not yet. I'm too young. I'll find the next job to keep me busy between seasons.
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Even afterwards when you go through a scene and then step off, sometimes you need a minute to just decompress.
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I want to give people jobs and put them on great shows. I want to create careers for people.
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