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I think it's because my comedy is in your face, and it comes from a place that's real.

Wanda Sykes

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Wanda Sykes
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 7
Comedian
Film Actor
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Television Actor
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Portsmouth
Virginia
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When life gives you lemons don't make lemonade, make pink lemonade. Be unique.
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When my parents send me emails the first 3 are blank.
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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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Actually, I majored in marketing and I have a bachelor of science.
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Whether you have a show or not, you can still be somewhere being funny.
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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 have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.
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I'm like, If you do something dumb, I'll write about it. If you put something out there, to me it's like you're kind of asking for it.
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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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Mostly everything gets worse before it gets better.
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I'm finally just relaxed and comfortable with who I am.
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I enjoy stand-up because it has the biggest reward: instant gratification. You can hear the people laughing.
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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 guess because of my act, people think that I say things they want to say, and that they can just come up and say anything to me.
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