C. C. H. Pounder Quotes
The thing about being black and having a different accent, in the beginning, is that it makes you foreign.
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I seriously object to seeing on the screen what belongs in the bedroom.
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Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.
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Ninety percent of the comic books I've written in the past had little or nothing to do with Islam.
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I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
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Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical way to do this, and less soul-destroying than working your way through a lengthy novel and then discovering it's rubbish.
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If you're making music for all the right reasons, people are going to be receptive to that and appreciate it the same way you did when your were writing it.
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I think I'm a pretty well-kept secret.
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I think of myself as a producer who tries to bring the best out of everyone, whether that be an artist, songwriter or a publicist.
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I got typecast early in my career as the guy who is very intense. Once you get into a certain mold, people see you that way, as much as it's disproved time and again.
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You know, the Brits had a way of - running an empire. And I don't think America is comfortable with an empire.
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My parents could not be more Italian.
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It's hard because I think I fall into this in-between space where there's something that's innately feminine about me, and there's also something that's kind of androgynous. I carry myself somewhere in between, and I think my music lends itself to that as well.
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You eat and sleep it all day long and play on the streets until mom calls you in. My story is no different than anybody else's.
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I spent years commuting into London when I was working as a temp, and I hated the monotony of it.
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The public needs to know - they need to know as much about atrial fibrillation as they do about cancer and diabetes.
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I've had situations where producers would be like, 'Could you meet me? Take the train; don't tell your parents.'
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Allowing adult children who live at home who are in between jobs to stay on their parents' health care, I think that's a lot of Republican support for that, with or without Obamacare.
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I did anything that would get me on the air.
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I want to do whatever I can to survive.
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Don't try to dress like me or wear your hair like mine. Find your own style.
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Being a part of independent-film world, the independent-film community, that's what you do. You support each other. If someone's doing a movie and you trust them, you roll the dice. Sometimes it's gonna be good, sometimes it's gonna be something that's like, "Oh I don't know what the hell that is." But I've been more fortunate than not to have it work well.
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In my big group of girlfriends at home, I am definitely not the best looking. I did not grow up feeling like I was particularly attractive.
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The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that we should be separate, all right, but in this separate state or separate existence, the black man should be given the opportunity and the incentive to do for himself what the white man has done for himself.
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The thing about being black and having a different accent, in the beginning, is that it makes you foreign.
