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Tracy Morgan Comedian, Actor
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"When I do stand-up... I get to do whatever I want to do. There's no boundaries. You'll get to know me. You'll leave with a piece of me."

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Tracy Morgan Comedian, Actor
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"Let's focus on the funny. ... That's what I'm focused on... This is the gift God gave me. That's what I want to touch in people."

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Tracy Morgan Comedian, Actor
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"What I have learned over the years is to try to stay in the moment. I want to feel it all because I've realized nothing lasts."

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Tracy Morgan Comedian, Actor
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"I want to let my fans know I love them and I'm coming your way and I'm bringing truckloads of funny."

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Tracy Reese Fashion Designer
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"You have to be the person you want to be - and start now. If you don't begin the process yourself, you're going to be waiting forever."

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Truman Capote Author, Journalist
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"You don't understand. You've never hated anybody. No, I never have. We're allotted just so much time on earth, and I wouldn't want the Lord to see me wasting mine in any such manner."

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Trey Parker Animator, Writer, Director
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"I don't want to say never, but I hope I don't become that 'take me seriously now' guy."

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Trey Parker Animator, Writer, Director
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"It's funny because I think a lot of it is simply... We've never considered ourselves satirists, but because we're on Comedy Central and because we're South Park on Comedy Central, we can do any topic we want."

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Toni Morrison Novelist, Essayist
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"I want to feel what I feel. What's mine. Even if it's not happiness, whatever that means. Because you're all you've got."

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Tom Waits Singer-songwriter, Actor
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"People make songs so that somebody else will hear them and want to do them. I guess it's an indication that the songs aren't so ultra-personal that they can't possibly be interpreted by anyone else."

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Tom Waits Singer-songwriter, Actor
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"What you want is for music to love you back. That's why you pay your dues. You want to feel like you belong and are part of this symbiosis, metamorphosis, whatever you want to call it."

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Tom Upton Businessman
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"You have to figure that there is something seriously wrong with somebody who wants to enter a profession that deals with whether people are screwing enough. Dealing with spirits, spooks, and demons almost seemed normal."

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