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I used to be an insult comic, and I didn't end up liking the way that I felt about myself.
Zach Anner
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Zach Anner
Age: 39
Born: 1984
Born: November 17
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I just love all the music. My grandma was a church organist for 40 years, and she got me into jazz music and great songwriters, Harold Arlen, George Gershwin, all those folks. I can't do it, but I have a profound respect for it.
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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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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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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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I do a lot of conferences, and I did a campaign with the Cerebral Palsy Foundation called Just Say Hi. They get celebrities to record little messages about how you start a conversation with someone who has a disability, which is to Just say hi.
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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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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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Writing was not my medium. I preferred to do video.
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Everyone who was here [Sheraton Universal Hotel] when I won still works here, so the two biggest moments in my career are intersecting. It's so cool that I can say hi to everybody.
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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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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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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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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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There's a whole chapter about my unfortunate manscaping accident. I was so focused on, I've got to look this certain way and do this to be ready for this. So I missed out on a lot.
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Nothing like quoting Silence of the Lambs for people to question what kind of disability you have.
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I make funny shows and put a positive message out there, showing people who have body image issues that... you don't have to look a certain way.
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What I don't like about the way the media portrays religion is that they seem to weaponize it and use it as a tool to divide people.
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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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Most of my work is comedy it's meant to inspire empathy in people and help them find joy.
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The most important thing is to have the conversation, and let people who do make mistakes feel comfortable enough to continue the conversation.
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