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" My father was so against me becoming an actor. "
Wendell Pierce
Me
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Actor
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" I have so much love for art. "
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" I worked at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, lived there for three years, and lived in Baltimore for 12 years. "
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" I would love to see a real story about Fred Hampton. "
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" When a sports team is doing well in a city that's going through tough times like New Orleans, like Detroit, it bolsters this real sentiment of 'we can get through this.' And when you have that sentiment, it becomes more than feelings: It's transported into action. "
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" David Simon is a brilliant writer, brilliant at being able to take what is ordinary and make it extraordinary. "
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" The power of a sports team in a community it's almost indescribable. "
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" Ultimately, I would love to do 'The Emperor of Ocean Park' by Stephen Carter. "
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" I trained at Juilliard so that I could do all kinds of genres, so that's what I'm trained to do. "
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" I tell people all the time: get some training and become a student of your craft. "
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" 'The Wire' really is an American classic, and I think that's something to be very proud of. "
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" I just know that 'Treme' broke ground when it comes to music and film on television. "
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" At Julliard we had some voice classes. It was really just so you could carry a tune. It always just helps with your speaking voice also, when you connect your diaphragm and your breath. "
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" New Orleans, more than many places I know, actually tangibly lives its culture. It's not just a residual of life; it's a part of life. Music is at every major milestone of our life: birth, marriage, death. It's our culture. "
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" In 1974, when the city of Boston was desegregating its schools, I watched the news with my dad and saw the police escorts in riot gear, the protesters screaming at the buses, small frightened faces in their windows. "
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News
Small
Police
" We always see abhorrent behavior and say why, but then we get mad when somebody tries to answer. "
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Always
Say
" Juilliard gave me the ability to go and do classical, contemporary, comedy, drama, everything. "
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Everything
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Ability
" Gregory Hines was the most talented man I've ever met or seen. Gregory Hines is one of those people that whenever he talked to you, you felt like you were the center of the universe. "
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People
Like
Seen
" In our house, my dad had a chair. It was a Barcalounger, big and comfortable. If we missed him or wanted comfort when he wasn't home, we'd just climb into the chair and let it envelop us. "
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Climb
Chair
House
" Coming out of school, sometimes people can be theater snobs. I only wanted to do theater, highbrow stuff. But what I learned very quickly is there can be good material in every genre. "
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School
People
Only
" The key, I always thought, to my career would be diversity - a diversity of not only the type of work that you do but the mediums. "
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You
Career
Diversity
" One of the real worries I had before the first season of 'Treme' aired was that, man, people in New Orleans really hold movie and television shows up to a high standard in how they depict the city. "
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People
Television
City
" The role of culture is that it's the form through which we as a society reflect on who we are, where we've been, where we hope to be. "
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Hope
Culture
Through
" The NFL is such a large, multibillion dollar enterprise with fan loyalty because they have provided not only entertainment for sports fans, but memories, good memories, family memories to these fans, that can only bring about good will. "
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" 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. "
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Grief
Live
Night
" I played trumpet for about two weeks. Sixth grade. And I didn't practice. Maybe a little longer than two weeks, but I didn't practice and I was faking it. "
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Practice
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Two
" It was really great to also see the response that people were having to 'Treme' 'cause you're in a vacuum when you're on a TV show. You see the response online, you read about it and all of that, but actually to be live and have that many thousands of fans come out, it's really wonderful. "
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Live
Fans
You
" I would love to do an anthology show based on the character of Jesse B. Semple that Langston Hughes wrote about. He's sort of a Forrest Gump character in the midst of 20th century Harlem. "
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Show
Love
Harlem
" My dad prepared me for the worst of times while also enabling me to succeed in the best. He taught me to confront the insidiousness of racism head on, no matter what the ramification, so it will not fester. Defeat it and get past it. That was The Talk. Nothing scared me after that. "
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Me
Racism
Past
" Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. It's how we deal with life, love, death, birth, disappointment... all of that is expressed in culture. "
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" Great art, the more specific you are, the more universal it becomes, and that's the thing that I loved about 'The Wire.' "
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