C. C. H. Pounder Quotes
With acting, I started very young, and I'd performed for a lot of children in boarding schools, late at night after the dormitory lights were out. I'd have a flashlight, and I'd be Count Dracula, or Shakespeare, or Yogi Bear, and leap from bunk to bunk. I loved the laughter; I liked the way it made people feel.
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I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
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It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.
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I want to see more Asians on TV. I want to see more faces like mine on TV.
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You gotta ask 'why' questions. 'Why did you do this?' A 'why' question you can't answer with one word.
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Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected.
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Singing, writing songs, is kind of my biggest fear, but it's the thing I feel I need to conquer.
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I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
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You know, I endeavor to be more like my older brother. He's very magnetic. He's actually very much like 'Castle' in that people are attracted to him, and just want to be near him. You want to know where my brother is in a crowded room? He's the guy with the crowd around him.
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Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
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Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.
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I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.
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You just have to re-wire your brain when you're shifting from the stage to the screen or the silver screen or the HD flat screen.
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I wanted to see how flavors, spices, and grains traveled back and forth along the Silk Road and were interpreted by a multitude of cultures' palates.
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Every guy should be the owner of a really nice pen. When you put your thoughts down, or whenever you're going to share something with someone, it means something if it bleeds out in a nice ink.
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I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.
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We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.
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ISIS is at war with America, but America is not at war with ISIS - not the president, nor the Congress, and certainly not the American people.
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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
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I think comparisons are very on the surface. If I sing, like, 'Park Bench People,' and there's kind of a social undertone, people will say I sound like Gil Scott-Heron. But for me, the more insightful comparison would be a Roberta Flack or Nina Simone - people who really mix different genres of music.
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While the most disadvantaged students - most often poor students of color - receive the most considerable academic benefits from attending diverse schools, research demonstrates that young people in general, regardless of their background, experience profound benefits from attending integrated schools.
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Today is a day for sober and mature reflection, not glee. Mindless celebration is both spiritually inappropriate and politically naive.
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One of the things Kuhn said about normal science is that people 'expect' things to be discovered.
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The first time I ever went out of the country, it was to London. I was with the choir from my college, and we were touring around all these different churches. I loved it so much I tried to find a way to stay there.
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With acting, I started very young, and I'd performed for a lot of children in boarding schools, late at night after the dormitory lights were out. I'd have a flashlight, and I'd be Count Dracula, or Shakespeare, or Yogi Bear, and leap from bunk to bunk. I loved the laughter; I liked the way it made people feel.
