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Wanda Sykes

"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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Charlotte Eriksson

"One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"I've been playing with Blackwell over 20 years. We used to play when I first went to Los Angeles. Blackwell plays the drums as if he's playing a wind instrument. Actually, he sounds more like a talking drum."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"I walked to Seward School first through fourth grade. It's just amazing to me now that we'd walk down 10th Avenue on Capitol Hill."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"How that works is our first season was the year we had a threatened writers' strike, so what we did was that instead of doing 22 episodes, we did 30. We put 10 in the bank."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"I was 23, and that was my first professional job. Anybody who has curly hair knows you don't want it to be brushed out because it becomes a never-ending tangle."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"We were engaged three-and-a-half weeks after the first date."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"First of all, you have to understand that I'm like anybody else. When I hear my voice on a record I absolutely loathe my voice. I cannot stand my voice."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"Do not tell somebody how to vote, just go up to them and tell them what Fahrenheit 9/11 meant to you. Fahrenheit will probably not win an Academy Award, but if you put it first on your list, it will become a nominee."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"We shot on location in our very first weeks, in our very first shows. I would like to go on location again, Hawaii would be good!! But normally, we tape five days a week in the studio starting at about 8:00 a.m. and continuing until about 8:00 p.m."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"Remember the first rule of gunfighting... "have a gun.""

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Wanda Sykes
"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."

Deep

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Wanda Sykes
"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."

Passion

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Wanda Sykes
"In '87, I used to do this awful, awful James Brown impression."

Impression

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Wanda Sykes
"I'm here today because I hated everything else."

Today

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Wanda Sykes
"Back then, I was doing more of my impression of what a comic is supposed to do."

Impression

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Wanda Sykes
"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."

First

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Wanda Sykes
"Men don't hear women."

Men

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Wanda Sykes
"Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal."

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Wanda Sykes
"Usually, there's nothing being thrown toward the stage or at me. Then I feel pretty good about it."

Being

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Wanda Sykes
"If you're passionate about your work, it makes the people around you want to be involved too."

Work

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