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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
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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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A woman would pitch a joke. Nothing. Then a guy would pitch it and everybody would laugh.
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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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I like doing a bunch of different things, being all over the place.
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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 really can't pinpoint the one moment when I said I want to be a comic.
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I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.
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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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People say, 'Well don't you regret not having kids?' And I go, 'No, not really.' And then if they keep asking, I always say this, 'Well, you know, maybe I'll adopt.' But I don't mean that. It's just something I say to make me sound like a nicer person.
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I'm here today because I hated everything else.
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That word sassy - it haunts me. I keep getting the sassy thing.
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I'm here today because I refused to be unhappy. I took a chance.
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Once you start making money, you can be an ass. But I am not an ass. I'm too lazy, that takes a lot of energy.
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If something stinks, I say it stinks. But I try to massage it a little and not be as cutting, come behind it with a joke: Hey, I cut you deep, but now let me put a couple of stitches in you.
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I noticed recently, in the last few shows I did, that I'm starting to get people - not a large group, but quite a few people - who come to see me because they love Curb Your Enthusiasm.
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Good comics stick around. There are people who have TV shows that might be successful, but comics can't really fake it. If you say, 'Hey, I love what you guys are doing - you're funny,' then you're in. It's legit.
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I think it's because my comedy is in your face, and it comes from a place that's real.
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Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
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white criminals commit the biggest crimes.a brother might rob a bank. a white man will rob a pension fund. the brother is going to get ten to fifteen years because he had a gun. the white guy is going to get a congressional hearing because he had a job and a nice suit.
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You know what, I think maybe it's because men like to fart, and the host wants to be able to sit in his writers' room and just pass gas freely. Me, I'm a lady. I'm dainty. I know to get up and leave the room and go to my office.
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