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I went through every phone book in Africa, and I didn't find one god damned Pryor!
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On trying to find his roots. Live At The Sunset Strip (1982)

 

Richard Pryor

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The new phone book's here! The new phone book's here! This is the kind of spontaneous publicity I need. My name in print. That really makes somebody. Things are going to start happening to me now!

 

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[Graham Greene’s] ability to encapsulate the essence of an exotic setting in a single book is exemplified in The Heart of the Matter (1948); his contemporary Evelyn Waugh stated that the West Africa of that book replaced the true remembered West Africa of his own experience.

 

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I didn't know if I was going to mention my period on stage, but then I figured, if Richard Pryor had a period, he would talk about it.

 

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(When asked about the method for a trick where a member of the public answers a public pay-phone only to immediately slump to the floor as if asleep) I was saying ‘there’s fifty quid under the phone book. Just pretend. You’re on TV’.

 

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