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Now, I think the people who are still doing stand-up are doing it because they love stand-up.

Wanda Sykes

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Wanda Sykes
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 7
Comedian
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Portsmouth
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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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L.A. is nothing but a bunch of driving, and I hate all that damn driving 'cause it interferes with my drinking.
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I hope his kidneys fail, how about that? He needs a waterboarding, that's what he needs.
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I like doing a bunch of different things, being all over the place.
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It's hard to get fired from the government. You have to, like, kill people.
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How can you stop people from loving each other? How can you get upset about loving?
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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 feel today's society is so judgmental.
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I know every time I fly, I get checked twice: they stop me at security, and then, they get me again at the gate. And last time, it was so bad, they actually made me go through the machine with the luggage.
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If you don't believe in same-sex marriage, then don't marry somebody of the same sex.
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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 really can't pinpoint the one moment when I said I want to be a comic.
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In '87, I used to do this awful, awful James Brown impression.
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As soon as you say 'I do,' you'll discover that marriage is like a car. Both of you might be sitting in the front seat, but only one of you is driving. And most marriages are more like a motorcycle than a car. Somebody has to sit in the back, and you have to yell just to be heard.
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With a black president, I can relax... I can dance in public... I can buy a whole watermelon now.
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When I am outside at night by myself every person turns into a pedophile. So I tend to walk a little faster than usual and then I sprint.
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I felt like I was being attacked, personally attacked - our community was attacked. Now, I gotta get in their face. 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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And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike.
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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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But I think funny and talent will always win out I mean, of course there are hurdles, but I think if you're funny you will get over all of that.
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