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I think anybody who works with Malcolm, the first thing they go, 'Holy cow! I'm working with Theo!' because that was part of my childhood.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: american

Topics

Childhood Think Cow Go First Holy

There is power in naming racism for what it is, in shining a bright light on it, brighter than any torch or flashlight. A thing as simple as naming it allows us to root it out of the darkness and hushed conversation where it likes to breed like roaches. It makes us acknowledge it. Confront it.

Power Light Simple Darkness Racism

I've been painting and making things since I was little.

Painting Little Things Been Making

People can grow from adversity as much as they do from prosperity.

Adversity People Grow Prosperity

I'm constantly playing this game in my head where I'm thinking, 'Can this quote be pared down and misinterpreted?' It doesn't matter what outlet I'm talking to and how comprehensive the interview is, because I have to think in terms of, 'Right, but 'People' magazine could just take this one quote and take it out of context.'

People Game Think Thinking Talking

It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.

Great Human Human Being Being Surely

When I sang that song, I felt it was almost as if some force had moved into my body. Things like that have only happened to me singing jazz. It doesn't happen when singing pop. I get so deeply into the music, it feels like I've become someone else.

Music Me Singing Song Someone Body

It's funny: wrestlers and comics bond over remembering their best shows and their absolute worst shows.

Traveled Wrestling Dying Alabama

My first gig was 'The Outsiders.' I was 14 there. And probably one of the more jading experiences in my whole life.

Jay R. Ferguson

Life More First Experiences Whole

Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.

Life Children Trying Poet Cut Knot

I am a sugar freak.

I Am Sugar Freak Am

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Opportunities Hell Create

I try to hit all the places Guy Fieri visits in every city I go to. It's, like, something a 60-year-old would do.

City Go Places Try Guy Something

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