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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.
Wanda Sykes
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Wanda Sykes
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 7
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I sat down and wrote some jokes and went to the talent show, got up on stage, fell in love with it and never turned back.
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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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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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My neighbor, she invited me to an Elvis party. I told her I couldn't come 'cause I'd be too busy making fun of her from behind my blinds.
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In '87, I used to do this awful, awful James Brown impression.
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I love Costas. He's knows too much, but he's a good guy.
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I'm a black, gay woman. I think the only way to make the GOP hate me more is if I sent them a video of me rolling around on a pile of welfare checks.
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Now, I think the people who are still doing stand-up are doing it because they love stand-up.
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How can you stop people from loving each other? How can you get upset about loving?
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Seriously, I don't need a gun. I'm easily annoyed. I would shoot people in my house that I invited over.
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I had top-secret clearance and everything. I was working on a couple of projects that would keep me involved in Desert Storm. I was in the mix, which is scary.
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Being gay is harder than being black. I didn't have to come out black. I didn't have to tell my parents about what its like to be black.
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Mostly everything gets worse before it gets better.
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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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I have a well-balanced show. It's 50/50 on men/women, and also African-American/white writers, it's the same thing. I have four African-American writers, and four non-African-American writers.
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But sometimes the women writers will pitch something and I'll hear it, but the men will keep talking.
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I always had one goal, and that was to be a real funny stand-up comic, and that's pretty much what I'm doing. And everything else is kind of like gravy - TV, movies.
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Actually, I majored in marketing and I have a bachelor of science.
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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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The first time onstage, a light went on. 'OK, this is my thing. I'm comfortable here. This is my thing.'
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