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When I told my friends I was going to be a comedian, they laughed at me.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: american
Birth: February 25, 1967

Topics

Me Friends Going Comedian Laughed

I feel the pressure of getting something right.

Pressure Feel Right Something I Feel

When I think about writers who use fiction as social commentary and to raise social awareness but who are also very popular, I think of Dickens.

Think Awareness Fiction Social Raise

After being away at college and in the Army, I never considered living anywhere else. I loved Chicago then, and I love Chicago now.

Love College Loved Army Now Living

I just kind of change, constantly, what my focus is. So whatever is stimulating me or inspiring me at the time is what I focus on.

Change Time Focus Me Kind Whatever

My own thinking has evolved. You find Africanisms in American speech. You find an African influence on United States culture. There are all kinds of Africanisms in America, as you would expect, if you really thought about it... That whole thing is much broader; the influence is much broader than I first understood.

Culture Influence Thinking Thought

My career suffered massively because I had a reputation for being a very tabloid person.

Reputation Career Person Being Very

After centuries of dormancy, young women... can now look toward a future moulded by their own hands.

Rita Levi-Montalcini

Women Future Hands Look Young Now

We will not allow this day of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial to go without somebody going to jail.

Day King Go Jail Will Without

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

Good Music Pain Feel You About

To lose your last remaining parent is the toughest thing. It is a very lonely thing.

Parent Lonely Lose Last Your Very

Being in the public eye is easy for me because I come from a family of four generations of teachers, so I'm used to being around books and discussions. But to write, I very much need to be alone.

Svetlana Alexievich

Family Alone Me Eye Easy Teachers

I am not anti-media at all. But the media, the news anywhere in the world, is based on drama.

I Am World Media Drama News Based

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