Wendell Pierce Quotes
It was really great to also see the response that people were having to 'Treme' 'cause you're in a vacuum when you're on a TV show. You see the response online, you read about it and all of that, but actually to be live and have that many thousands of fans come out, it's really wonderful.
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Often it seems that there are writers who are their best selves on the page. That Seamus Heaney was as genuine and deeply admirable in person as in his poems was to me a gift, then as now.
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I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.
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People shouldn't have to spend a lot of money to get high-quality clothing.
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When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
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Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
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Every training session, I try to simulate the conditions similar to where I am racing.
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I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.
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I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.
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I've grown up playing for some incredible coaches, and I don't think anybody's ever been as fortunate as I have in terms of the people I've been allowed to play under, coach under, or be involved with.
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Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.
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Men are domineering in rural Haryana, and that shows in sport, too.
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The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.
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We have to look after the health of the players. Quality suffers with too many games.
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I believed or thought I was disoriented and the victim of a bizarre dream and I believe I paced in and out of the room and possibly into one of the other rooms. I may have re-examined her, finally believing that this was true.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes.
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When my brother-in-law, BIll Clinton, was elected, he had gay friends. That was a coming out.
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There is a great insatiable hunger for good stories throughout the media.
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People sometimes ask me to name the greatest coach in NFL history. George Halas may have set the standard, but Don Shula has won more games than anyone, and he has done it in the most competitive era. He had an incomparable ability to evaluate players, to motivate them, and to teach them the game of football.
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Genetics is about how information is stored and transmitted between generations.
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It was really great to also see the response that people were having to 'Treme' 'cause you're in a vacuum when you're on a TV show. You see the response online, you read about it and all of that, but actually to be live and have that many thousands of fans come out, it's really wonderful.
