Kenya Barris Quotes
The PC way of handling culture has been to not talk about it. But we should be talking about it.
Kenya Barris
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I read the Steve Jobs book, and that kind of changed everything. I've been, like, an Apple geek my whole life and have always seen him as a hero. But reading the book, and learning about how he built the company, and maintaining that corporate culture and all that, I think that influenced me a lot.
G-Eazy
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The video game culture was an important thing to keep alive in the film because we're in a new era right now. The idea that kids can play video games like Grand Theft Auto or any video game is amazing. The video games are one step before a whole other virtual universe.
Vin Diesel
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I always wanted the films to play in malls, and I wanted as many people as possible to see them. I never want them to be marginalized in the kind of rarefied, elitist world. I always have hopes that the films will permeate culture in a big way. A lot of times, I'm wrong, but it's always the hope.
Harmony Korine
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When you consider the concept of vampirism, it is inherently part of a Western culture.
Park Chan-wook
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The storm came. Lives were washed away. Ancient pains resurfaced. Now it is time for a sea of change.
Tavis Smiley
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I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.
Randall Jarrell
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I worked with Ismail Merchant on 'The Mystic Masseur,' I did 'Sakina's Restaurant,' I've done plays, I've been on Broadway, I've done movies, I've done TV... but nothing has had the pop culture penetrative impact as 'The Daily Show' has. It's the nature of the beast.
Aasif Mandvi
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I come from a culture where you don't divide it up to what you can do on TV and what you can do on film.
Mads Mikkelsen
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The air of the English is down-to-earth. They care about details; there's a tradition, but there's also a counter-culture: the younger generation versus the older generation and so on. But then that's well blended into a happy balance and crystallised into common sense.
Tadashi Yanai
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With modelling, you go somewhere for 24 hours and you don't even see the city, you don't talk to people or see the culture.
Olga Kurylenko
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Our philosophy is you need to give nonprofit money for health, nutrition, education, culture, and sports.
Carlos Slim
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World events can shape culture. Music is either a soundtrack for or a narration of changing times. And who knows how that's going to go?
L.A. Reid
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These days I'm mostly familiar with two parts of L.A.: one is movie culture, and the other is Asian culture. The Westside is work, and the Eastside is Chinese - which means my friends.
Ang Lee
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I was immediately smitten with an attraction to this culture, not in the sense of high culture but of the basic way people behaved towards one another.
Harry Mathews
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I take pleasure in the little things. Double cheeseburgers, those are good, the sky ten minutes before it rains,the moment your laugh turns into a cackle. And I sit here, and smoke my Camel straights, and I ride my own melt.
Ethan Hawke
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When I think of 'Instagram models,' I say you have to take baby steps. You cannot just walk straight onto the runway.
Alek Wek
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I think some of the big characters, you know, they do these adventures, but they've got something about them, they've got this charisma, and they've got to have a sense of humor. Because whether it be very dry, or very silly, they've got to be likable.
Rhys Darby
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The PC way of handling culture has been to not talk about it. But we should be talking about it.
Kenya Barris
