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When life gives you lemons don't make lemonade, make pink lemonade. Be unique.

Wanda Sykes

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Wanda Sykes
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 7
Comedian
Film Actor
Screenwriter
Television Actor
Television Producer
Voice Actor
Writer
Portsmouth
Virginia
Wanda Sykes-Hall
Wanda Yvette Sykes
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My worlds collide. When one things happens, it just starts a domino effect - everything else goes on.
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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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How can you stop people from loving each other? How can you get upset about loving?
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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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It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians.
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All these teenagers tell us how much they want to grow up and then when they do they want to be young again.
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Since when did I become the spokesperson for nappy-headed hos?
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I'm here today because I hated everything else.
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It's easier to rip somebody to shreds while you're making them laugh.
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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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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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Some black people want to get in touch with their African roots. But then you got some black people that just don't give a damn. You tell them, 'Hey, I just got back from the motherland.' They're like, 'Where'd you go - Detroit? Did you see The Temptations?'
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I always want to go back and do stand-up I like the freedom.
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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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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 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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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 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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I don’t understand why people really get upset about something that doesn’t affect them at all.
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But I understand that relationship I understand how the mother-in-law, daughter-in-law relationship has so many conflicts because it's so forced.
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