Wendell Pierce Quotes
'The Wire' really is an American classic, and I think that's something to be very proud of.
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I love the power of celebrity because you can give voice to the voiceless.
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What happened was I saw this ad for a yogurt plant for sale. It was in my junk mail pile, and I threw it into the garbage can. And then about half an hour later, with the dirt on it, I picked it up from the garbage can, and I called out of curiosity.
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I've fought with everyone . And now I have become so headstrong that I only do what I want.
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One of the first major storylines that 'All My Children' featured was Erica Kane, a rebellious daughter, and her mother, sort of a matriarchal type, who was trying to guide her daughter to a safer place.
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I want to know who my client is. I see her on Instagram, but it's another thing to get to chat with her.
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I went to quite an academic school, and all my friends were going to university, but even before my acting jobs, I didn't want to do that. I didn't want to spend another three years being institutionalised, and I feel that getting out of that system benefited me in quite a few ways.
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When I look at myself, I'd like not to have hair on the top of the ceiling.
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When we say a show is successful, it's because, relative to the investment, it's successful, relative to how else we would have spent that money on licensing something else, does this creation - did it attract the audience that it was built for.
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I can't go back and label myself as an outcast because I was a pretty well-adjusted kid, but I can certainly relate to the feeling of being an outsider.
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Although sometimes I might sound sometimes idealist or too optimistic but I think my father used to say to me in everything bad there's something good that is going to come out of it and there will always be a tomorrow.
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We've always had anti-Muslim bigots, but they've always been at the fringes of society.
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Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man.
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I will never do a record without some sense of responsibility.
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The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.
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What is your identity, and how do you know who you are if you don't have language?
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I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.
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Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
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The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.
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Everyone is capable of everything.
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Or in the early days we didn't have the bus, we had a station wagon.
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I desperately want to see the day today and do the best I can not miss a shred of sunlight. It'll be over before I know it.
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Don't assume that the answers are out there in the form of somebody else already doing something. Sometimes they are. But you have to think beyond that.
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'The Wire' really is an American classic, and I think that's something to be very proud of.
