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1->''"I get offered movie roles all the time, and I say, 'No! No, I don't want to play a manicurist!' I don't want to play a really pissed-off [[AsianStoreOwner liquor store owner]], I don't want to go nowhere with a chicken under my arm, I don't want to play an [[AsianAndNerdy exceptionally good student]], I do not want to [[JapaneseTourist get off a tour bus and take numerous photographs]], I do not ever want to utter the phrase, "[[Film/YouOnlyLiveTwice Welcome to Japan]], [[Film/JamesBond Mr. Bond]]," I don't want to [[Literature/MemoirsOfAGeisha be a geisha]] and write my memoirs [...], I don't want to [[Literature/TheJoyLuckClub drown my baby in a bathtub]], I do not want to be in [[Theatre/MissSaigon any musical where there's gonna be a helicopter!]] What it is is that I CANNOT [[WireFu RUN UP A WALL!]]"''
2-->-- '''Creator/MargaretCho'''
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4->'' "This is Hollywood 2001. Even the most dignified black actress gets stuck with the ghettofied hoochie role." ''
5-->-- '''Derek''', ''Theatre/{{Carmen}}'' (the Creator/{{MTV}} "hip-hopera")
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7->'''Nny''': Hey, not to offend, but I thought [[FluffyCloudHeaven Heaven would be all white and fluffy]].\
8'''St. Peter''': If it were all white, it would hardly be Heaven would it?
9-->--''ComicBook/JohnnyTheHomicidalManiac''
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