On some level in acting, what you're trying to find is truth, because when it's true is when it's also funny.


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TAMORA PIERCE
My husband and I click wedding rings sometimes and say, 'By the power of the Castle of Greyskull...
TAMORA PIERCE
One of the things I strive for is realism. I need to be as real as possible in the dilemmas my chara...
TAMORA PIERCE
If you aren't having fun, if you aren't anxious to find out what happens next as you write, ...
TAMORA PIERCE
I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.
TAMORA PIERCE
Teen problem novels? I can go through them like a box of chocolates. And there are fantasy books out...
TAMORA PIERCE
I don't write from dreams because I don't remember mine, but I had a fragment of an image le...
TAMORA PIERCE
I went to Beijing for the Olympics and was literally right across the track from Usain Bolt. And whe...
WENDELL PIERCE
I worked at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, lived there for three years, and liv...
WENDELL PIERCE
We always see abhorrent behavior and say why, but then we get mad when somebody tries to answer.
WENDELL PIERCE
It was really great to also see the response that people were having to 'Treme' 'cause y...
WENDELL PIERCE
Gregory Hines was the most talented man I've ever met or seen. Gregory Hines is one of those peo...
WENDELL PIERCE
One of the real worries I had before the first season of 'Treme' aired was that, man, people...
WENDELL PIERCE
New Orleans, more than many places I know, actually tangibly lives its culture. It's not just a ...
WENDELL PIERCE
At Julliard we had some voice classes. It was really just so you could carry a tune. It always just ...
WENDELL PIERCE
I played trumpet for about two weeks. Sixth grade. And I didn't practice. Maybe a little longer ...
WENDELL PIERCE
'The Wire' really is an American classic, and I think that's something to be very proud ...
WENDELL PIERCE
A lot of cats in New Orleans, very soulful, very soulful musicians and they assume that they're ...
WENDELL PIERCE
The power of a sports team in a community it's almost indescribable.
WENDELL PIERCE
What thoughts are to the individual, art is to the community as a whole. That's where you reflec...
WENDELL PIERCE
The role of culture is that it's the form through which we as a society reflect on who we are, w...
WENDELL PIERCE
And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and com...
WENDELL PIERCE
The NFL is such a large, multibillion dollar enterprise with fan loyalty because they have provided ...
WENDELL PIERCE
Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.
WENDELL PIERCE
With the Union my best and dearest earthly hopes are entwined.
FRANKLIN PIERCE
I have some wonderful suits in my closet, a lovely car, some refined watches.
PIERCE BROSNAN
Oh, humiliation is poisonous. It's one of the deepest pains of being human.
PIERCE BROSNAN
Daniel Craig is brilliant as Bond: there is no question about that. But it's a different Bond. I...
PIERCE BROSNAN
You always bump into politics in life, and as a man, I'm party to a number of environmental issu...
PIERCE BROSNAN
There are few colonial nations anymore. Instead, we are colonized by financial institutions beyond o...
CHARLIE PIERCE
Movies are somewhat diminished by blockbusters, which are great, but there's not enough choice.
PIERCE BROSNAN
Daja: "He and Rosethorn work together? They hate each other."
Lark: "I didn't say they liked i...
TAMORA PIERCE
Curiosity killed the cat,” Fesgao remarked, his dark eyes unreadable.
Aly rolled her eyes. Wh...
TAMORA PIERCE
Alan, you seem to think we won't like you unless you do things just like everyone else. Have you eve...
TAMORA PIERCE
I--buy, and I sell."
"You're a thief.
TAMORA PIERCE
George looked at her for a long moment. Finally he replied, "And why do you find it so hard to think...
TAMORA PIERCE
Her free hand was clenched in a fist. I held still, waiting for her to say something, to tell me she...
TAMORA PIERCE
You're more trouble than you're worth."
"I'm a girl. That's my job.
TAMORA PIERCE
This may be my only chance to see humans before these two are made into fertilizer for Moonwind's ro...
TAMORA PIERCE
I would have lived in peace. But my enemies brought me war.
PIERCE BROWN
Alanna: All I know is that I'm to jump when I'm told and I have no free time.
TAMORA PIERCE
The bravest person I know is afraid of the dark. She sleeps with a night lamp always, but if her fri...
TAMORA PIERCE
You do not follow me because I am the strongest. Pax is. You do not follow me because I am the brigh...
PIERCE BROWN