Wendell Pierce Quotes

The world, post-Katrina, was a hard time for my city. The hardest time. For people who didn't live through it, no words can fully express the pain, the rage, the grief, and the futility we New Orleanians felt. For the people who did, words seemed like a feeble protest against a relentless night without end.

Wendell Pierce

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 8, 1962

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I don't want people reading my books just because they're horror or mysteries. I want them to read them because they're Joe Lansdale books.

Joe R. Lansdale

PeopleReadingJust BecauseWant

If a horse doesn't want to do something, you're not going to make him do it. They're incredibly powerful animals.

Jeremy Irvine

HorseYouPowerfulAnimalsWantHim

I've always wanted to work in America because of those brilliant east-coast political movies of the '70s and '80s - great scripts, wonderful performances, gritty urban parable.

Andrew Lincoln

WorkGreatPoliticalAmericaMovies

This is about black people selling out other black people.

John Mellencamp

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Our circadian biology, and the insatiable early-morning demands of a post-industrial way of life, denies us the sleep we vitally need.

Matthew Walker

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I think it's one of the secret sauces to our success, if you will, is that our fans are a part of our show. They engage, they chant, they cheer, they boo. There's a problem when they don't react. So, in essence, every live event is like a focus group. So we are getting that real-time feedback from them in the arena.

Stephanie McMahon

SuccessLiveFocusThinkProblem

I believe you accomplish what you measure.

Stacy Brown-Philpot

BelieveYouMeasureAccomplish

A hashtag is not a movement.

Shonda Rhimes

Movement

A lot of my work is with children and there's a reason for that, because they really level you.

Robert Carlyle

WorkChildrenYouReasonLevelLot

You've to celebrate the good days because there are brutal days that make the good ones sweet.

Brian O'Driscoll

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I feel very, very lucky to have come from the family I did. We have our dysfunctions and our problems, just like any family. But my parents are extremely loving people.

Annette Bening

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I have been in many countries, and I have found there people examining their own love of life, sense of peril, their own common sense. The one thing they cannot understand is why that same love of life, sense of peril and above all common sense, is not invariably shared among their leaders and rulers.

William Golding

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