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" If you're happy with what you're doing, then you don't get bored. "
Paul Mooney
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" I don't want affirmative action - too much affirmative, not enough action. "
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" Hollywood doesn't even have respect for itself. Hollywood lies to itself. "
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" There's always a message in my comedy. "
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" You know who you are. If my mother is a nun and someone comes up to me and they go, 'Your mother is a prostitute.' It is not going to bother me, because I know my mother is a nun, she's not a prostitute. "
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" People don't want to hear the truth; they never do. They wanna live in some kind of fantasy. "
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" Comedians period, in general, have demons, and myself included. "
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" Sometimes, what you do you have no control over because it's predestined. It's gonna happen in spite of you. There's nothing you can do about it. "
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" Tennessee Williams knew about the South, but he would clean it up and lie about it. "
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" There are still plenty of movie people peddling black stereotypes. I guess Tyler Perry's probably the most massively successful. "
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" I'm as American as apple pie. "
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" Julie Christie, I used to hang out with her. She was friends with Richard Pryor and Warren Beatty and all of them. There was a club in Beverly Hills called the Candy Store, a private club. I used to hang out with them all. "
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" I can't change the past, but one person can change the future - anything can happen. "
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