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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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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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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Everything in life has a price on it - there ain't a damn thing free in America, and football has got a price on it.
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The market always, in theory at least, looks ahead. And it's always trying to take in every bit of information that it can as quickly as it can. You don't really care so much if the company made a dollar last year; you want to know what it's going to make this year.
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If we are going to change our diets, we first have to relearn the art of eating, which is a question of psychology as much as nutrition. We have to find a way to want to eat what's good for us.
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I am insecure. If you ask me, everybody is.
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I don't feel I was ever a 'famous' child actor. I was just a working actor who happened to be a kid. I was never really in a hit show until I was a teenager with West Wing playing First Daughter Zoey Bartlet. In a way, that was my saving grace - not being a star on a hit show. It kept me working and kept me grounded.
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One of the banners I would put up in front of any American president and new administration is 'Do not overreact to your predecessors' policies.'
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'The Wire' really is an American classic, and I think that's something to be very proud of.
