Wanda Sykes Quotes
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A lot of times, I'm singing things that are observational and am definitely including myself.
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Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.
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The stage and working in front of a camera are two completely different mediums. Each requires different techniques.
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For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
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I tell myself every offseason I'm not going to say anything crazy. I'm just going to have a peaceful season... Can't do it. I'm cut from a different cloth.
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I would say 'The Master' was one of the most inspiring things I've ever got to work on.
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The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.
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I hate auditions - when I'm doing them, I can't wait to get out the bleeding door.
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I know there are some actors who are just brilliant at improvising and brilliant at just being in the moment and doing it there and then. I'm not one of those actors.
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Young adults in their late 20s are confronted by so many choices - there are so many different paths to choose. Sometimes I think we just fill our lives with stuff so we don't really make any choice at all, which is certainly incredibly luxurious.
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In the 20th century alone, there have been 1,600 books about the circus. My adding one more would be superfluous unless I do something totally new and different.
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In certain ways, I'm not very different than I was when I was a teenager.
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Don't look for approval in what everyone else is doing; look for approval from Almighty God.
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I love doing kids' films.
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Yes, we are all different. Different customs, different foods, different mannerisms, different languages, but not so different that we cannot get along with one another. If we will disagree without being disagreeable.
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I am also a Kentucky Colonel and an Honorary Mayor of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, among other things.
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We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.
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When I went to university in Colorado, I was encouraged to write very innovative, experimental things, and some of the short stories in 'Bearded Ladies' are a little bit experimental.
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I am an open-minded person, so I would happily collaborate with other artists who share the same passion for music, regardless of the genre. I do consider that great things could also come from unexpected collaborations between people who have different cultural and musical backgrounds.
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If you say you're fat, all of a sudden people like you!
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In the comic-book world, there tends to be an overblown sense of tradition. Bad habits die hard. There are ways I think the form could work more effectively if we lost the bad habits that were created before we were born.
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Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.
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God is great.
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I like doing a bunch of different things, being all over the place.
