Larry Wilmore Quotes
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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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It used to be that the black comic figure had to have this bravado and always showed strength.
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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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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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You have to stay alert. You've got to keep raising your game.
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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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Writing is the most frustrating, but it's something that I've always done.
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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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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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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 don't take pleasure in anyone's demise, really.
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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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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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I'm understated in my approach.
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When you work in television, you're in the writer's room all the time.
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I didn't get into comedy to talk about violent death all the time.
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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.
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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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People aren't autonomous creatures. They're under a lot of pressure themselves.
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I'll stop talking about race when people stop being racist.
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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 have a lot of passion for a lot of different things.