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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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Zach Anner
Age: 39
Born: 1984
Born: November 17
Comedian
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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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Most of my work is comedy it's meant to inspire empathy in people and help them find joy.
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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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What's great about this hotel [Sheraton Universal Hotel in Universal City, CA] is that I stayed here for a month when I was competing on the Oprah reality show. So it's like coming home.
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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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I'm currently doing a Soul Pancake show called Top of the Monday, which is basically a good morning news show. It's just me being silly, telling people about good news that's going on in the world, putting them in the mood to start their week.
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There was an agent who wanted to book me for Glee. He lied and said I could sing. He was like, If you need a guy in a wheelchair who has a great voice, I've got your guy! I was like, What are you talking about? .
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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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There's always going to be some hate on the Internet.
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I have a confession: I have no faith.
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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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I would love to get an international version of Riding Shotgun going, because that's what I've been angling at ever since I wanted to do a travel show in the first place.
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My friends from the University of Texas. I've had the same friends for over a decade. My brother films a lot he usually edits my Workout Wednesdays. All the people who work on my projects are amazing.
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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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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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I have one of the worst voices in the history of recorded time.
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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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Having a son with a disability helps makes Walter White a more sympathetic character. There's no story line that shows Walt Jr. going through the things that you go through as a teenager with a disability. It's always his relationship to other characters. That was my issue with it.
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No Atlantis is too underwater or fictional.
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