"I think I wanted to write a book about the relationship between the victim and perpetrator in which the victim agrees to remain silent."

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Source : "Darrell Hammond Book: Comedian Reveals Childhood Abuse, Psychiatric Treatment". Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 7, 2011.

Darrell Hammond

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“It's said that when we die, the four elements - earth, air, fire and water - dissolve one by one, each into the other, and finally just dissolve into space. But while we're living, we share the energy that makes everything, from a blade of grass to an elephant, grow and live and then inevitably wear out and die. This energy, this life force, creates the whole world.”
“The secret subversive goal of my work is to show that women, not just lesbians, are regular human beings.”
“As I get older, I want to do more films for kids because they're the best audience around. Just putting a smile on a kid's face is the best thing.”
“It takes a different mindset to be successful in anything; that's why there's not a lot of super duper successful people, because it's guys I know who may be ten times more talented than me, but they don't work as hard.”
“He laughed like an irresponsible foetus.”
“Just imagine, more than half of the young people in the European Union do not have jobs. How can one explain that? How can one explain that to a working family, that produces goods and services, those who produce the olive oil that is a a main source of food in any European country? They humbly work the land with great effort and then the little resources they had saved in banks have now become dust simply because they did not have the means to withstand inflation produced by the adjustment policies.”
“I love classic rock, rock and roll, that's the top notch. I love soul - bluesy music as well.”
“There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had had the free alternative as we now have, would have founded slavery.”

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