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“What people tell me they take away from my books is that they can shape their lives, they can achieve their own dreams. And certainly that's what I want them to take away.”
“I immediately loved working with flies. They fascinated me and followed me around in my dreams.”
“Dad taught me everything I know. Unfortunately, he didn't teach me everything he knows.”
“Anyone who knows me, and most of my fans, know that I have a sense of humor.”
“Nobody enjoys the 'little show about nothing' humor more than me, but that is never the way I look at it.”
“You don't necessarily equate me with humor!”
“I think it's critical, a sense of humor. It did help me - it does help me, continuously.”
“My sense of humor often gets me in trouble.”
“I have a sense of humor, and sometimes it gets me into trouble.”
“For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.”
“For me, humor is everything!”
“Daddy was hilarious. He could take the most mundane event and tell it so that we all on the floor laughing. He trained me in the joys of humor.”
“People who know me know I have a sense of humor that can really push the envelope.”
“It felt as if things were literally slipping through my fingers. Things were just streaming away from me. I lost my sense of humor. I'm still looking for that.”
“It's always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor.”
“People always ask me how I manage to find humor in so much bleakness. I think this is almost a necessary skill to have.”
“Humor was not important only for me, humor was important for this nation for centuries, to survive, you know.”
“The polls indicated that I was feisty, that I was tough, that I had a sense of humor, but they weren't quite sure if they liked me and they didn't know whether or not that I was sensitive.”
“All the people who follow me on Twitter know my sense of humor. I sometimes forget the blogosphere will give it more weight than I intended.”
“People ask me what the most important thing to take on the race is, and I always say it's a sense of humor. If you've got nothing but a sense of humor, you will survive.”
