"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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Source : "Wendell Pierce Goes to Market". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. January/February 2012.

Wendell Pierce

#New Orleans Quotes #Culture Quotes #Birth Quotes

“Either there is a God or there isn't. Both possibilities are frightening.”
“Revenge is a dish that tastes best when served cold.”
“I was a runner, a failed quarterback, third-string quarterback, but in track I was a 2-miler.”
“I always admired Walt's optimism. He seemed to know the direction he was going to. When I was at the studio, I remember he kept driving all of us back down to a more fundamental level all the time.”
“To me, personally, it doesn't matter what color I am. Black or white, Asian or Hispanic, it doesn't matter to me as long as the message I'm portraying to people that watch me on TV is positive and it shows that they can do things that are different besides catching a football, hitting a baseball or shooting a basketball. I'm just showing them that stepping outside the bubble is OK and they can be successful at it.”
“I've noticed that about your people, Doctor. You find it easier to understand the death of one than the death of a million. You speak about the objective hardness of the Vulcan heart, yet how little room there seems to be in yours.”
“My birth neither shook the German Empire nor caused much of an upheaval in the home. It pleased mother, caused father a certain amount of pride and my elder brother the usual fraternal jealousy of a hitherto only son.”
“Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.”

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