Kenya Barris Quotes
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As a kid, I kind of spent my life being amazed by being tricked. I love being tricked. I still love it today.
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I'm trying to learn to smoke, which is rather weird when everyone is trying to stop. I'm not a smoker. But my character only smokes as an affectation.
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I'm focused on energy only. And I know what I'm talking about. And I don't want to be distracted on other things.
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I'm an American citizen now, but I will always have Canadian pride.
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No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.
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I never deviated from my grim determination to someday have all the money I needed and wanted.
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It doesn't matter how old you are or what you do with your life, you will never stop needing your mum. And I will never stop needing mine, so thanks, Mum.
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I think when you're young, you're a lot more open-minded, and sometimes you're a lot more perceptive about what's going on in the world.
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There's nobility in hard work, traditional values.
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The Scottish Highlands are incredible. There seems to be magic and poetry everywhere.
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I live in New Hampshire. We're in favor of global warming. Eleven hundred more feet of sea-level rises? I've got beachfront property. You tell us up there, 'By the end of the century, New York City could be underwater,' and we say, 'Your point is?'
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There was a scene in 'Qubool Hai' where Asad shoots his father. After shooting for it, I was drained completely. At times, my character's mood gets very depressing. Post shoot, it takes a good half hour to get out of character, to leave Asad behind.
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And in nineteen seventy two I almost wasn't, on the team, but I knew about it just before Olympic Games for three months before this why this is was not very good for me. I'd been ready to go, you know.
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Russians have a new freedom, but as long as they don't express that freedom on a public platform.
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You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.
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It is immoral to use private property in order to alleviate the horrible evils that result from the institution of private property.
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The child is a realist in every domain of thought, and it is therefore natural that in the moral sphere he should lay more stress on the external, tangible element than on the hidden motive.
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If I wasn't plagued by needing to write things, that would perhaps be a blessing.
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People used to say everyone knows someone who's had breast cancer. In the past few weeks, I've learned something else: Everyone has someone close to them who has had breast cancer.
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We are victims of the post-Enlightenment view that the world functions like a sophisticated machine, to be understood like a textbook engineering problem and run by wonks. In other words, like a home appliance, not like the human body.
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A lot of family members worked in the joint commodities family business. It was a classic case of capitalism at work and socialism at home.
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If there is any test that can be applied to movies, it's that the good ones never make you feel virtuous.
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I love Meryl Streep.
