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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People are sometimes like: "Oh man, you're so talented and you do a bunch of stuff." I'm not! I swear to god, I'm not. I just like learning stuff, I like doing stuff. And I feel like everybody can definitely do it.
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There are people who have energy that say 'don't come near me, don't get too close.' There's people like Adrienne Shelley who have the energy of 'come over here and give me a hug and if you're around me you're going to be happy about it.'
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Let's admit it; the only use for complaining is to make people laugh.
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In the 20th century, we built a lot of walls - we endlessly tried to build walls between us and people we perceived, correctly or incorrect, as our enemies. In the 21st century, because of the advent of networks, the free movement of goods and people across the globe, we need to build security by building bridges instead of building walls.
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Well, I didn't learn them I had to do them phonetically. But I've recorded in Dutch and Japanese, too.
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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.
