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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I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.
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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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You only get one chance in this thing called life. I know that is a bit maudlin and obscure, but it's a fact, and you can make a profound difference in people's lives without having a title in front of your name.
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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've had my run in with trouble. Fortunately, you know, one slap on the hand is usually the last time for me... I learned my lesson.
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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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Everything doesn't have to be perfect, I've realised. You can learn as you go.
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Young people beginning a career need to realize that there are lots of "buses" in life. More often than not, selecting which one to be on determines success or failure, joy or despair.
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My family was amazing; they exposed me to the world of show business, and, boy, it was the '70s and I got to spend a lot of time backstage at theaters and see the inner workings of how this entertainment industry is really put together.
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It is not our business to make the message acceptable, but to make it available. We are not to see that they like it, but that they get it.
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I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.
