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You really just have to have a good attitude, challenge yourself, and you can accomplish great things.

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Zach Anner
Age: 39
Born: 1984
Born: November 17
Comedian
Screenwriter
Television Producer
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Writing was not my medium. I preferred to do video.
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I've come to be pretty selective about the type of advocacy that I do, because I kind of feel like it's stronger to just do my work and let it speak for itself.
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I feel that religion can be used as a tool to guide your life and help you connect with other people.
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I have a confession: I have no faith.
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You want the world to be set up for you, but sometimes it just isn't.
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We did a book signing and people came up to me. There was an expectant mother who was like, I think we might name our child Zach because of your work.
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You can never walk a mile in someone elses shoes, but you can walk a mile in your own and be proud of it.
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Writing every day across nine time zones because Gillian [Grassie] was in Berlin, and we were working together via Skype. It was pretty intense. I'm really happy with how it turned out.
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My experiences of traveling abroad and going to Italy with my father, having to break down a gigantic electric chair to get on trains. You've got three minutes. You go to Pompeii and there are shockingly few accessible hotels in a city that was covered in volcanic ash.
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When I got my Oprah money, the first thing I bought was a really nice electronic bidet toilet seat. It just feels like this is what we should be doing. For everybody who uses it, it's like there's no goin' back.
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The biggest disabilities are when you sabotage yourself mentally, those personal demons that get on your shoulder and you can't shake 'em.
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No Atlantis is too underwater or fictional.
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I haven't found anything that I've wanted to say that I couldn't do through either the Internet or the reality shows that I've done.
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I always say, once I get in a room, I can sell myself just fine. I know that not everyone who has a disability has the social skills or cognitive skills that I do, and it may be harder for them to navigate through.
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I had to write a comedy set and film a show at the same time. And it's the second time I've been up on stage as a stand-up comedian with untested material. I was saying it out loud for the first time that night. It didn't go how I expected, but in the best possible way.
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Most of my work is comedy it's meant to inspire empathy in people and help them find joy.
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CP is a struggle, but it's also been quite the tool for me to find success and deliver a message. It's something about me that's unique, so it'll open a few doors as well as keep a few closed. If you have the other tools that you develop as an individual, talents, things like that, you can harness this to do positive things in the world.
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Call yourself and define your relationship to your chair the way you want to, or your disability the way you want to.
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There's a tendency to treat anyone with a physical disability as inspiring. I call it a pedestal of prejudice, in that you're lifting people up to dismiss them. My whole thing is bringing us down to everyone else's level and saying we're all the same. The struggle is the same.
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