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Richard Pryor
Age: 65 †
Born: 1940
Born: December 1
Died: 2005
Died: December 10
Autobiographer
Comedian
Film Actor
Film Director
Journalist
Screenwriter
Television Actor
Television Producer
Peoria
Illinois
Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor
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Even when I was a little kid, I always said I would be in the movies one day, and damned if I didn't make it.
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I was given two weeks to walk again, so I hooked up with a trainer, and he... had me walking. I'll never forget that, it was grueling.
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I think about dying. I've come to realize we all die alone in one way or another.
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Crosses only scare vampires away because they're allergic to bullshit.
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You have to have lived some life. You've got to have paid some dues.
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I'd like to make you laugh for about ten minutes though I'm gonna be on for an hour.
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What I am for is justice for everyone, just like it says in the Constitution.
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If I ain't horny, I check to see if my heart's beatin'.
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I'm slower and some days are better than others, but I'm a fighter.
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There's a lot more hypocrisy than before. Racism has gone back underground.
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Booty is just a ghetto expression, and I'm just a booty star.
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I urge you to ask yourself just how honorable it is to preside over the abuse and suffering of animals.
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Why get killed when you can run ... your ego will heal much faster than a broken jaw.
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The MS really started going downhill in 1990.
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A lie is profanity. A lie is the worst thing in the world. Art is the ability to tell the truth.
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All humor is rooted in pain.
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You work your butt off and somebody says you can't have your record played because it offends them. Tyrants are made of such stuff.
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I had to stop drinkin, cuz I got tired of waking up in my car driving ninety.
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I realized this is what God has dealt me, and I should be thankful considering all that's happened to me in my life, but MS caused the movies to stop - stop dead - and I miss it.
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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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