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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I feel great identification with the developing world.
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We used to take a used locomotive engine, tear it down, rebuild it, and put it back out there. We treated all the engines the same.
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During Christmas break, my dad was going to mail a tape of me to the house Coach Glanville has here in Georgia. When he found out it would take about three days to get there, he drove the tape over there and rang the bell and talked to him for about 15 minutes. (Glanville) called me that night and said he loved the tape and it all kind of went from there.
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For much of history it was possible to believe that the great diversity of life on Earth was a fixed creation, that the living world had never changed. But when the first stirrings of industry demanded that fuel be dug from the earth and hillsides be leveled for roads and railways, the Earth's true past was dug up in abundance.
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To come to the end of a time of anxiety and fear! To feel the cloud that hung over us lift and disperse - that cloud that dulled the heart and made happiness no more than a memory! This at least is one joy that must have been known by almost every living creature.
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I love Meryl Streep.
