#om

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

— Wanda Sykes

#comic #doing #i #impression #more

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. ↗

— Wanda Sykes

#anything #because #come #guess #i

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

— Wanda Sykes

#comedy #comes #face #i #i think

It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians. ↗

— Wanda Sykes

#comedians #comedy #first #good #got

It's easier to rip somebody to shreds while you're making them laugh. ↗

— Wanda Sykes

#laugh #making #rip #shreds #somebody

Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal. ↗

— Wanda Sykes

#deal #get #had #into #just

Sometimes a little compromise isn't a bad thing. You don't need to be precious about it. ↗

— David Sylvian

#bad #bad thing #compromise #little #need

The public so often want to freeze the artist in a moment in time when they were at their peak, and they want the artist to revisit it over and over again as if it was something authentic. ↗

— David Sylvian

#artist #authentic #freeze #moment #often

Later the Administration wanted me to actually sell all remaining surplus by running the War Assets Corporation. I said I couldn't do it without some shoe leather. ↗

— Stuart Symington

#administration #assets #corporation #i #later

Sure, you would lose more bombers without fighters, but, flying in formation, you could get the job done. ↗

— Stuart Symington

#could #done #fighters #flying #formation