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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The bottom line of Hollywood is money.
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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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It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.
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I don't dance like I used to, but I'm moving and I'll be doing my form of dance at Town Hall... I hit my limitations but I learn to work with what I've got.
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I'd like to think I'd never do a gratuitous fart joke.
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The rumor is Chu Hing really wanted the 'Green Turtle' to be Chinese American, but the publisher didn't think that would sell. If you read those books, the hero almost always has his back facing the camera so you can't see his face. When he turns around, his face is obscured.
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I'm always about trying to fill a need with what I do in my artistry. There is definitely a need in the performing arts world for a movement to come along that seriously connects with a next generation audience while still maintaining the timeless artistic objectives present throughout the history of the American music tradition.
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'The Wire' really is an American classic, and I think that's something to be very proud of.
