#want

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

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

— Wanda Sykes

#around #involved #makes #passionate #people

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

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

— Wanda Sykes

#deal #get #had #into #just

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

My restaurants are never opened on Thanksgiving; I want my staff to spend time with their family if they can. My feeling is, if I can't figure out how to make money the rest of the year so that my workers can enjoy the holidays, then I don't deserve to be an owner. ↗

— Michael Symon

#enjoy #family #feeling #figure #holidays

It's just that when you heard hip-hop, no matter where you were, it was a culture that kind of made you want to try to be part of it. Whether you thought you were an artist, whether you thought you could be a DJ, whether you thought you could breakdance, or whether you thought you could rap. It was the kind of culture that had a lot of open doors. ↗

— Ice T

#could #culture #dj #doors #had

I don't want to promote my own image either. I don't like going on television or mixing in literary circles. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

#either #going #i #image #like

Everyone wants to get better as they go along, but sometimes it's all you can do to stay consistent. ↗

— Peter Straub

#better #consistent #everyone #get #go