Wanda Sykes Quotes
I have a sidekick, Keith Robinson, who's very funny. I've known Keith for over 20 years; he's my best friend.
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Man is a physical and spiritual epitome of the Universe.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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If I get in a dark spot, I'll listen to some Adele and cry about it.
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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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Story was that human civilization started to develop with first social network. Emerged where population concentration was high. Helped propel to where we are now. Facebook is next step of creating a huge human brain to embrace hundreds of million, possibly billions of people.
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During the decade following the discovery of the double-helical structure of DNA, the problem of translation - namely, how genetic information is used to synthesize proteins - was a central topic in molecular biology.
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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
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I love lamb shank. It's my favorite thing. You don't have it in America. It's a younger meat - it just falls off the bone - it's kind of like a roast. I really like blackened cod too.
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As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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Because I'm in an adult world and I'm really working, my age is just a number. It's not really who I am.
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As a writer, as much as I try, I can't stop writing female characters. They have so much more to offer; they have to wear so many different hats. There's so much wonderful gray matter in a female's life that it just makes for a stronger character.
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Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.
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We will not lose this election for lack of money.
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I watched a lot of old television growing up - a lot of Nick at Nite. I watched 'Rhoda', 'Mary Tyler Moore', and 'I Love Lucy.' Growing up, I loved 'My So Called Life' and was devastated when that went off the air.
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To become the best comedian, I must be well-rounded.
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I've been happily dedicated to the same woman for a number of years. I never even look at other women.
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It's just my natural way - to be funny. I don't know why that is. But as I've said, humor is a quick cover for shock, horror, confusion. The critics hate funny writers for the most part. They think funny is not serious, but I think that funny can be even more serious than nonfunny. And it can be more affecting, too.
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Michael is a funny character, for whom I have a great deal of affection. He sat across his desk and seemed to be a bit of a blunt fellow. We began talking about the characters and he opened up about his vision.
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I hadn't ever felt any particular calling to be a novelist, and I clearly remember telling a friend of mine about six months before I started work on 'Elsewhere' that I would never write a novel.
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Although I like the work I've done in the past, I like what I'm writing now even more.
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I have a sidekick, Keith Robinson, who's very funny. I've known Keith for over 20 years; he's my best friend.
