Wendell Pierce Quotes
'The Wire' really is an American classic, and I think that's something to be very proud of.
Quotes to Explore
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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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The path that went by the little house had become a road. Almost every day Laura and Mary stopped their playing and stared in surprise at a wagon slowly creaking by on that road.
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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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Write about society as news and treat it like sociology.
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The only way to permanently change the temperature in the room is to reset the thermostat. In the same way, the only way to change your level of financial success 'permanently' is to reset your financial thermostat. But it is your choice whether you choose to change.
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The cine-camera and television set allow us to perceive slow motion. The concept of anything other than real time had never occurred to anybody until the first slow-motion movies were shown, and this radically altered people's perceptions of nature.
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People think children's books are about teddy bears and little flowers. I realize people sometimes don't know what to do with my books because they say, 'Is it a children's book, and what age group?'
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'The Wire' really is an American classic, and I think that's something to be very proud of.
