Wanda Sykes Quotes
I tried theatre. I played Miss Hannigan for a short run of Annie at a regional theatre. That was fun. I enjoyed it! I enjoy theatre and have so much respect for theatre actors.
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I was practically driven to Rome in order to obtain the opportunities for art culture and to find a social atmosphere where I was not constantly reminded of my color. The land of liberty had no room for a colored sculptor.
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Every good movie I watch, the hero becomes my favourite. I start blushing every time a hero romances a heroine.
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I'm from Iowa Falls, Iowa. My dad was a small-town lawyer, and my mom was a pharmacist. She worked at Swartz Drug. I have five older brothers.
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Odd Future's like a network as opposed to like a rap group.
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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
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Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
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Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.
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I remain fascinated by where you go as a woman once you are a mother, and if you ever come back.
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I love the look of full brows that aren't perfectly done - eyebrows on fleek: that's the goal.
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You're either with me or you're not. And if you're not, you're out.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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For me, the day job comes first. That's why I call myself a diplomat who writes, not a writer who masquerades as a diplomat. If the day job demands it, I won't write at all. I write in what I call 'the crevices of my day job', and that comes only on weekends.
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Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.
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It's something that I do every year - every Ramadan to be exact - taking an 18-hour flight back home to Malaysia from Los Angeles. I'm born and raised in Malaysia, and Ramadan and Eid has always been my favorite time of the year.
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In the U.S., diversity is a politically correct slogan. In India, it is a historical fact. Much as we in the West may resent it, India has a lot to teach us when it comes to religious tolerance.
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I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.
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In 1916, Universal Studios released the first filmed adaptation of Jules Verne's novel '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.' Georges Melies made a film by that name in 1907, but, unlike his earlier adaptations of Verne, Melies' version bears no resemblance to the book.
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I see four principles as laying the foundations for the kind of economic recovery Europe needs: fairness, efficiency, solidarity and growth.
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I'm not at the point of accepting it yet - but I will have to come to the point of accepting that people will doubt me forever.
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Filling a theatre like the Olympia or Vicar Street on your own name is a very rewarding moment.
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'Hairspray' has never been irrelevant, which is, in some ways, heartbreaking.
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It's always been a subtext of our secular optimism that you solve the economic problem, and all other things sort of take care of themselves. Well, we seem to be doing well on the economic side - we are doing very well - and the other things are not solving - they're compounding.
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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.
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I tried theatre. I played Miss Hannigan for a short run of Annie at a regional theatre. That was fun. I enjoyed it! I enjoy theatre and have so much respect for theatre actors.
