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I hope his kidneys fail, how about that? He needs a waterboarding, that's what he needs.
Wanda Sykes
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Wanda Sykes
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 7
Comedian
Film Actor
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Television Actor
Television Producer
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Portsmouth
Virginia
Wanda Sykes-Hall
Wanda Yvette Sykes
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I'm always thinking of stuff I just don't sit down and write it. I come up with material more as I go along if something funny happens, I'll make a note of it on my phone.
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Usually, there's nothing being thrown toward the stage or at me. Then I feel pretty good about it.
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Writers get to stay with the piece. They don't just turn the script in and somebody else takes it over and goes out and produces it and edits it and all that stuff. We stay with the piece all the way through.
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I think maybe Rush Limbaugh was the 20th hijacker. But he was just so strung out on Oxycontin he missed his flight. Rush Limbaugh, 'I hope the country fails' - I hope his kidneys fail, how about that? ... He needs a waterboarding, that's what he needs.
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I'm proud to be a woman. I'm proud to be a black woman, and I'm proud to be gay.
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I work hard. The staff and crew see how much energy I put into this project, and it makes them step up.
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Whether you have a show or not, you can still be somewhere being funny.
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How can you stop people from loving each other? How can you get upset about loving?
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I don't like the saying keep your friends close and enemies closer. I want my enemy on a different planet.
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I'm here today because I hated everything else.
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It wasn't until I became more confident with myself and I put myself forward instead of the jokes at first it was put the jokes out there and I'm just behind the jokes.
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I was really gifted at being able to construct a joke, but it's like they weren't even memorable, my first jokes, because they were so about nothing.
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If you feel like there's something out there that you're supposed to be doing, if you have a passion for it, then stop wishing and just do it.
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When I'm not on T.V. or working on a movie, I'm on the road doing stand-up. That's my roots.
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I knew something was wrong with the economy when the shampoo girl at my salon closed on a six bedroom house.
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Women and our right to choose were going to be challenged with Ashcroft around. When Bush appointed Ashcroft, I went out and got me four abortions. I stocked up. The doctor was like, Listen, you're not pregnant. I said, Hey, just shut up and do your job. I'm exercising my right while I can, dammit.
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It's hard to get fired from the government. You have to, like, kill people.
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