"I remember thinking about it," she says at last.
"I remember thinking about my new approach and how I would attack it.
When Officers Russel Timoshenko and Herman Yan were shot as they approached a stolen car three years ago, I remember thinking about what true New Yorkers they were.
When I first drove through Death Valley, in 1999, I remember thinking about what might happen if I got out of the car and walked into oblivion.
I remember thinking about how I went from working, going to school and having my daughter back to losing it all within a month.
I remember thinking about Maryann that she was fantastic and wonderful to work with, and she grew into the heart of the Apple plays.
"When I was accepted into Harvard Law School, I remember thinking about who I am, and where I came from, and where I had been only a few years before," she said.
I remember thinking about Mirta and how I would explain this to her, and also the sudden exhaustion I felt as I calculated the hours it would take me to reorganize everything.
We did an episode of Black Mirror [The Waldo Moment] about a cartoon character who ran as an MP, and I remember thinking about Boris Johnson, but I wasn't sure we had quite got it right.
Actually, I remember thinking about this moment last year, as I lay awake worrying about the fact that only a quarter of Best Actress winners are older than thirty-nine, and how I realistically only had a couple of years to win before the odds would suddenly triple against me.
During the four Novembers I spent in Istanbul, between 2009 and 2013, I remember thinking about Thanksgiving only once, the year that the third Thursday of November coincided with the Muslim sacrifice holiday, when rams are slaughtered to commemorate the time that Abraham didn't have to sacrifice his son.
