Wanda Sykes Quotes
Don't bother me while I'm eating, or when I'm coming out of the crackhouse or something. Just let me get going.
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It's up to God to do the judging. You haven't walked in my boots, so how are you going to judge me?
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So many athletes who have been close to me have been everything to me.
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I have to be able to rap. I don't have the look. I don't have the typical slim-dude, fancy-clothes look. That's not me. I have to be able to rap - there is no other choice, or else I get eaten alive.
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I call myself a feminist, not a feminist filmmaker. If somebody asked me if I had a feminist sensibility it would be pretty hard to deny, but is it the theme of my work? Not necessarily. I'm interested in a lot of things.
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People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.
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For the first two weeks of filming, I remember bristling at some of the occurrences on the set, none of which directly involved me. Then I surrendered to the environment, to Michael's method, and became much happier, even though no one knew what to expect.
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After I was 70, I realized that, 'Okay, I would like to have another 50 years, and I probably could.' But part of me is saying, 'Maybe I'm not going to have that much time.'
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What can you do if a part of it is uphill? You can't work out another route. You've just got to run the one they give you. But they tell me London is a nice course. Even the cobbles, I hope, are not very much of a problem for me.
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I knew I was going to be somebody.
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I'm obsessed. I've always needed to know what's going on but now it's a must.
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For me, being a mum has been a really, really instinctive thing.
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I don't think I'm going to become Brad Pitt overnight, but I presume if walk down Oxford Street, there is a chance someone might clock me.
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One minute, it seemed I had more movie offers than I could handle; the next – no one wanted me.
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If there are negative people around me, I just try to distance myself from that.
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I have the feeling of being a very small item on this planet, and literature enables me to express that.
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I got sent to a health camp when I was about 6 years old, and we all had to wear the same starchy blue uniform. The lady who took care of me after school knit me a burgundy sweater. It was the only thing that gave me any individuality.
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I wear my Viking helmet because the horns define how sharp my brains are. If you try to rub me the wrong way, I will stick you with both of my horns.
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I believe in eating what I like and sweating it out in the gym.
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Nothing in my younger life could have told me I would have needed to know how to speak English.
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Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.
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I do love doing films; I love going out and creating different characters for each film, and not having to be stuck with one role for many, many years. It's a creative liberty that I love.
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When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?
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The world is always full of brilliant youth which fades into grey and embittered middle age: the first flowering takes everything. The great men are those who have developed slowly, or who have been able to survive the glamour of their early florescence and to go on learning from life.
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Don't bother me while I'm eating, or when I'm coming out of the crackhouse or something. Just let me get going.
