Wanda Sykes Quotes
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
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There are times I think it might be nice to have deep-pocketed limited partners to provide me with some cushion. But I enjoy having no responsibilities except to myself, financially.
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I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.
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Salesmen always need something to sell.
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What really makes it fun for an actor is when the script is good.
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For me, I never, never, from the moment I started acting, had a desire to be famous.
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I think that everything starts to go to hell when you start smelling your own farts and complimenting yourself on how great they smell. We're not going to turn into fart-smellers.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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It's often the death of the show when you break the tension and the two lead characters get together.
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It's funny to think that when you get done with an acting job, you're considered unemployed. There are definitely times when those checks don't last forever. I went to college at a private school, and I racked up quite a bit of debt. I was very slow to pay them back.
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I'm reading today because of 'Encyclopedia Brown.'
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We do violence to the consciousness of a past age when we divide what was indivisible to it: the one sacred truth of the Christian creed.
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I have a handicap in that English is not my first language. So even though I'm a writer, I don't write anymore because it's just harder in English.
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I use more makeup now then I did before. I didn't use to wear really that much, and I didn't know how to do makeup, but now I know how to do it a bit more. I can do eyes and makeup in general more. I do like my own lipstick as well.
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There are less than 1 per cent of anorexic girls, but there more than 30 per cent of girls in France - I don't know about England - that are much, much overweight. And it is much more dangerous and very bad for the health.
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Had I to do it again, I would have been a math major, probably a double major, and did take a lot of math classes, but I would have taken a lot more.
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My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor.
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Most of the people who live in Washington come from other places and you can learn something from them.
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I remember saying that wars must not be glorified, but wars must be remembered.
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I'm one of these people who tends to think that the ordinary people are more fascinating than the celebrities and even the politicians.
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I didn't understand key signatures or anything, you know. I'd say silly things at the top of a trumpet part like, 'Note, when you play B naturals, make the B naturals a half step lower because they sound funny if they're B naturals.' And some guy said: 'Idiot, just put a flat on the third line and it's a key signature, you know?'
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I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.
