Wanda Sykes Quotes
If you're passionate about your work, it makes the people around you want to be involved too.
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When I hit my 20s, I took a chill pill and relaxed because throughout my teens I was churning out an album a year. It was a treadmill of work then recording, promoting and touring.
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It's hard to give advice. There are so many people, how do you give major advice to a group of people, it's very presumptuous.
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When you are truly interested in other people, you will learn what they are interested in and if they have a need for your product. If they like you, and most people like folks who take an interest in them, they'll help you find people who do need what you have to sell, even if they don't.
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The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.
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Sexual harassment at work... is it a problem for the self-employed?
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Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
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Nobody wants to be against technology, but I think that regulators should not - and people should not - assume that faster is always better in markets. We need to question technology to insure that markets continue to perform their fundamental purposes.
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I want to be in 'Glee', but I'm told I'm not famous enough to be a cameo yet.
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I don't just want to be a cute girl in a comedy or the actress who just does the same thing over and over again. I want to play roles that are distinct. I want to have a more varied career like actresses Viola Davis or Angela Bassett - those are the people that I grew up watching and admiring.
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'Frozen' definitely isn't about a man, but about the relationship between two sisters. At different times in our lives we find ourselves either more connected to or disconnected from the people in our family, and I think audiences will really be able to relate to that.
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We want laws to be applied predictably.
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The women who don't feel that people think they're sexy are the ones who seem to titillate in that way, because they don't feel like they're getting that kind of approval.
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I am 90. I can work day or night. I'm the same guy, but the polls show the effect of age. That's the issue.
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Fashion is such an octopus. You're connected to so many people: suppliers, pattern makers, production teams, marketing teams, vendors.
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I have enjoyed every call. The ones involving direct contact with people have been most rewarding.
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I just want people to remember me like I remember Buster Keaton. When they talk about Buster Keaton or Gene Kelly, people say, 'Ah yes, they good.' Maybe one day, they remember Jackie Chan that way.
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People going into the cities for the opportunities and the towns are getting older, no young people.
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When you really work hard for something that you genuinely and truly love, and you don't want it to fail, it's a good feeling to see it do good.
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I'm a crier. I always cry. I cry at the dumbest things, too. This is why I sort of steer clear of movies and films that I know are going to be depressing. I don't care how many awards they've won - I know they're good. I don't need to watch them, because I don't want to be depressed, and I don't want to cry.
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Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.
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The nicest thing about coming of age is that I can do whatever I like.
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Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.
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I love women, and I have a lot of really close girlfriends, but I'm not one of those women who's like, 'Ew - that's boy stuff.'
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If you're passionate about your work, it makes the people around you want to be involved too.
