Wanda Sykes Quotes
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I feel fine as long I'm not running around.
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How can you tell your kid, 'You can be anything you want to be,' if you're not trying to do the same?
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The way I was raised, family was always the most important. When I had our first daughter, Natasha, I knew that's what I wanted to do.
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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
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I think it is more a cautiousness that protects me from enthusiasm about things. I tend not to get excited. People perceive it as a scowl, which is fair enough.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
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I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.
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Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.
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I'd feel bad pretending my life was anything other than pretty good, so I do the role as well as I can and then I go home, have a cup of tea, see my family and friends, and appreciate what I've got.
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When you've got kids, you turn into Mom, and that's it.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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Working with Mellencamp, I made new fans, people that may have never heard of me. They may have heard I was related to the Carter Family or Johnny Cash somehow, but what they got was pure Carlene.
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And since Italy was involved in the space station as well as signed an agreement with NASA. And when the possibility to enter the 1996 Mission Specialist class.
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Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.
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I am from Karnal, India.
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I don't know what I was expecting or what I was dreaming about the xx accomplishing.
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Puberty extends into your twenties, for sure, and some people don't get over that until much later in life. I feel like I'm just starting to get over puberty - basically twenty years of insufferable, totally self-obsessed hell.
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There's like a special group of people that come from different parts of the planet to study with me. It's nice. I just gave a workshop in Boston at the New England Conservatory, which was really nice.
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You can't prove any hypothesis, you can only improve or disprove it.
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I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal.
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Don't look back until you've written an entire draft, just begin each day from the last sentence you wrote the preceeding day. This prevents those cringing feelings, and means that you have a substantial body of work before you get down to the real work which is all in . . . The edit.
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I worked with people like Edward Snowden. Well, not people who took stuff home.
