Wendell Pierce Quotes

I played trumpet for about two weeks. Sixth grade. And I didn't practice. Maybe a little longer than two weeks, but I didn't practice and I was faking it.

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• It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'

  

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• The main thing that I learned from my horrible job experiences was how horrible they were.

  

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• I'm a melancholy person. It's how I'm always going to be.

  

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• You could put all of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's angry sermons on to one loop. You could put that loop up on the big screen at Radio City Music Hall and let it play there 24 hours a day, seven days a week and Barack Obama will still emerge as the next president of the United States.

  

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• Politics has got too personal, too nasty, in Britain, as it has in America.

  

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• I drove right into the music with the same sort of attitude as I went into the football stuff with. Just found a routine and hard work, and it helped me progress a lot faster.

  

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• I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.

  

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• In our league, it comes right down to the end.

  

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• My father was military, so I traveled a lot, so I had 13 to 15 first days in new schools. Bullies transcend culture, unfortunately, and I had to deal with them wherever I went. I knew how to defend myself. But I didn't know how to fight.

  

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• All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

  

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• I consider The O.C. as my college. It was four years and I made friends who I'll have forever.

  

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• I've never been a rap guy, I don't really know that much about rap music, to be honest. I like it, but I think what really happened was just my music seems to work so well with rap music.

  

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• What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

  

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• I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.

  

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• I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

  

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• Ice cream was my undoing, and six chocolate milk shakes in a row were nothing to me at one time.

  

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• Maybe there's something about the outsiderness of being Jewish that makes for a fiery feminist type.

  

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• There are so many devices that can receive video, creating complexities, because suddenly you can have a TV, laptop, smartphone, pads. And they are of different sizes. It's clear that you need to standardise and get a much more efficient TV delivery.

  

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• Getting to the top of the mountain is a heck of a lot easier than staying there.

  

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• You know how there's always the one girl in drama school who can cry at the drop of a hat? She has that emotional well she can tap into in a second? I'm not that girl. It takes a lot to get me to that place.

  

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• I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. I'd already been translating French poetry, I'd been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went.

  

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• I played trumpet for about two weeks. Sixth grade. And I didn't practice. Maybe a little longer than two weeks, but I didn't practice and I was faking it.

  

  Wendell Pierce
  • Practice
  • Two
  • Maybe