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🗓️ 24 December 2022
⏱️ 7 minutes
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“I choose to be happy.” Emmy award winner Sheryl Lee Ralph shares her secret to staying motivated in her acting career journey, the reason fans connect to “Abbott Elementary” weekly, and her unexpected decision to make the Christmas album, “Sleigh.”
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0:00.0 | You're listening to Comedy Central. |
0:03.0 | BAM! |
0:05.0 | The run-in-on race for you. |
0:08.0 | Show, Lyra, welcome to the Daily Show. |
0:12.0 | Let me start with saying congratulations, Emmy Award winning. |
0:16.0 | You know, there are many performers in history, |
0:25.0 | artists, many actors who, audiences have said critics are like, |
0:31.0 | this person never got their flowers, |
0:33.0 | this person never got the recognition that they deserve. |
0:35.0 | So many people in black Hollywood never got the flowers that they deserve. |
0:39.0 | Talk me through just a part of this journey. |
0:42.0 | You know, you've done it all. |
0:44.0 | I mean, Mauritia for me and then moving from one to the next. |
0:48.0 | Dreamgirls for so many people back in the day, the original dreamgirl. |
0:53.0 | Talk me through the journey and what has kept you being as effervescent as you are. |
0:58.0 | Oh my God, I choose to be happy. |
1:02.0 | I choose joy. |
1:05.0 | Yeah, I believe that since I am alive, I might as well get up, |
1:11.0 | get out there and enjoy it. |
1:14.0 | I love it. |
1:16.0 | Yes! |
1:18.0 | I'm so happy that God has chosen throughout all of these years to wake me up every morning in my right mind |
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