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Glenn Rockowitz

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Glenn Rockowitz (b. May 27, 1970, Plainview, New York), is an American writer, filmmaker and comedian. A graduate of Chicago's famed Second City, Rockowitz went on to write and perform comedy for many years throughout the United States. In 1995, he founded a nonprofit AIDS and cancer charity in NYC, known as The Best Medicine Group -- an organization that brought hundreds of live comedy shows into the homes of terminally-ill patients throughout the metropolitan New York area. Rodeo in Joliet, a memoir of his battle with a very aggressive late-stage cancer, was released nationally on April 11, 2009. By early 2010, the book became a bestseller and was optioned to become a film helmed by director Matt Aselton. He is currently forming Change It ...more

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Rodeo in Joliet
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“I have survived my first day of chemo and I like this feeling of survival. It’s alive and it’s right and it’s what I will make sure I feel every day for the rest of the life I have left. I make a promise to myself: While I’m dying, I will be completely fucking alive.”
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“I have survived my first day of chemo and I like this feeling of survival. It’s alive and it’s right and it’s what I will make sure I feel every day for the rest of the life I have left. I make a promise to myself: While I’m dying, I will be completely fucking alive.”
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“Everything worth having lives on the other side of fear.”
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“Courage is often just a profound lack of options”
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“Courage is often just a profound lack of options”
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“I want to know, just for a second, how emptiness can feel this heavy”
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“Everything worth having lives on the other side of fear.”
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“Tomorrow may not be better, but it will be different. And different is the only path to better.”
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“I have survived my first day of chemo and I like this feeling of survival. It’s alive and it’s right and it’s what I will make sure I feel every day for the rest of the life I have left. I make a promise to myself: While I’m dying, I will be completely fucking alive.”
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