Larry Wilmore Quotes
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I really enjoyed being able to be one of the people who weighed in on the events. As hard as it is to do that every day, because it is exhausting, it really is fun to do that, especially when you feel like you really did something well, and it really hit.
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I'd love to set up shop somewhere and develop projects - film, TV, digital would be a fun thing to do.
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Some things are so tragic that you don't know what's funny in it, and some things are so ridiculous you don't know if it's worth talking about it.
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When you have somebody like a Donald Trump - he made no bones about trying to disprove Barack Obama's Americanism in trying to make him out to be some foreigner that was born in Kenya. I thought that to be very racist.
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I'm actually a big fan of having all the different types of voices on television. I think it gives people a nice little buffet that they can just pick and choose how they want to get their news and entertainment, I guess.
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Writing is the most frustrating, but it's something that I've always done.
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The business part of it can be very vexing. You always have to keep certain metrics and everything. Because all I can do is make a good show.
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You have to stay alert. You've got to keep raising your game.
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I don't take pleasure in anyone's demise, really.
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I'm not the type of person to have a schadenfreude.
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My father had a lot of allergies, and he just didn't like the cold of Chicago, and his father - his parents had broken up when he was young, and his father had lived in Pasadena for a while, and he kind of fell in love with Southern California.
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Even though you're in charge, you're not completely in ownership. You know, the audience takes a huge ownership of your show. Look at comments about shows and tell me if I'm wrong. Look at shows like 'The Walking Dead' and the ownership that the audience has of that show.
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I'm understated in my approach.
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We will see about Obama's legacy. I still think the historical nature of his candidacy will be the biggest part of his legacy.
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You are always, always overwhelmed by positive response because you know it can go either way.
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I do not look to Hollywood to give me character clues.
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When you work in television, you're in the writer's room all the time.
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I really don't have a need to be on TV all that much, to be honest with you.
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I didn't get into comedy to talk about violent death all the time.
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I'll stop talking about race when people stop being racist.
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I have a lot of passion for a lot of different things.
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People aren't autonomous creatures. They're under a lot of pressure themselves.
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I really love having conversations and deconstructing things. I don't mind not having a laugh every second. Sometimes things deserve a little more discussion, and then you can have some fun after that.
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I always said I'm not disappointed with Obama because I voted for him because he was black, and as long as he kept being black, I was a happy man.