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" I just believe what I believe. "
Larry Wilmore
Believe
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" All writers have a love-hate relationship with writing. Performing is fun, too, but I wouldn't say it's my favorite. But the most fulfilling is producing. "
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" A lot of my family on both sides have worked in education and nursing, and my grandmother was a nurse; my sister is a nurse, and her - my other sister's daughter is going into nursing. There's a lot of that in the family. "
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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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" I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too. "
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" My parents are from the Midwest. They're from Evanston, Illinois. They moved out to Los Angeles right before I was born. "
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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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" 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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" Sometimes I'm successful, and sometimes I'm not, but I don't mind going down trying. "
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