"I am in the Master of Professional Writing program teaching Humor Writing, Literary and Dramatic."

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Shelley Berman

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“The only creative power I know is that of what might roughly be called 'love'; not of course a sentimental love: a far more impersonal and less individual emotion. I sometimes think that migratory birds may have it for each other. They fly in the same direction, and have never been seen to interfere with each other's flights.”
“Exaggerated self-importance is deemed an individual fault, but a racial virtue.”

Source : Kelly Miller (1908). “Race Adjustment: Essays on the Negro in America”
“I planned my death carefully, unlike my life, which meandered along from one thing to another, despite my feeble attempts to control it.”
“I like writing for other people. I love it. It's great because you write it and then you hand it off to someone else. But in terms of directing, anything I direct will be something I've written or re-written. I'm in no crazy rush to direct.”
“Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years.”
“Maybe women get to a certain age and they no longer have a filter; they're considered crazy people or something.”
“Perhaps, once I am gone, the one thing I might be remembered for is having sung a great deal of Mahler with a great many phenomenal conductors. It is wonderful music, very spiritual.”
“Listen, if I heard shrieks and cries coming from a house and I ran in there and I found a great big broad shouldered whiskey soaked Joe weasel, dragging his wife about by the hair, and over here, two children are unconscious from his blows and kicks and another one screaming in terror, do you think I would apologize for being there? No! I'd knock 7 kinds of pork out of that old hog.”

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