Darryl Glenn Quotes
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I am a very proud Hindu. The foundation of my personality is laid on the teachings of Swami Vivekananda or Sanatan Dharm or the Geeta. And if my religious practices or anybody's religious practices is given any kind of sadistic name, it instills fear about other person's religious practices.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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With freedom comes responsibility, and I can think of no responsibility greater than putting on a U.S military uniform and standing in the gap between an enemy threat and civilian life.
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I love wrestling, but to wrestle just one style for the rest of my life seems like it would really hold me down creatively.
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All my life, my immediate response to emotional pain has been to make jokes. Lots of jokes.
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Nobody really believes in equality anyway.
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When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.
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There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams.
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I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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I have this extraordinary life during the day, and then I get to come home to my sweet husband who loves to cook with me. I have a nice glass of wine, he has some scotch, we chat, we cook, and we hang out with the dog. I have an absolute dream life.
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Long for me as I for you, forgetting, what will be inevitable, the long black aftermath of pain.
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It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stuff that's not needed.
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'Stand By You' is about sticking by the person you love not only when things are easy, but being there for them during trials and letting them know they aren't alone.
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When my body feels good, I feel more energized and alive, and that's sexy. I'm taking care of this body God gave me.
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I understand the common man because I understand me in that regard at least.
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I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.
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When I think of my work, I'm aware that I'm American and African at all points and times. And without a doubt, my experience and understanding of America was shaped by having immigrant parents.
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The world has to have zero tolerance for naked dictatorship.
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Bad improv happens with people who are inexperienced with each other and don't know the craft that well. But bad stand-up is something that could happen to someone at any level in their career.
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The good thing about having this illness is that it allows me to be a little bit crazy.
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The great lesson I get from 'Moby-Dick' is that when the times are bad, when there is great foreboding, there are still ways to go about living. It's through Ishmael that I find a kind of overall cosmic approach to a meaningful life in this meaningless world.
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Nobody wants bad cops off the street more than good cops.
