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You have to have lived some life. You've got to have paid some dues.
Richard Pryor
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Richard Pryor
Age: 65 †
Born: 1940
Born: December 1
Died: 2005
Died: December 10
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Peoria
Illinois
Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor
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If I thought about it, I could be bitter, but I don't feel like being bitter. Being bitter makes you immobile, and there's too much that I still want to do.
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I know that if I wasn't scared, something's wrong, because the thrill is what's scary.
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My grandmother used to discipline me, I mean, beat my ass, and I deserved them, too.
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The black groups that boycott certain films would do better to get the money together to make the films they want to see, or stay in church and leave us to our work.
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