Kenya Barris Quotes
Black, white, rich, poor - we galvanize through the hard times. We really see it happen in relationships. In the best and worst of those moments, you come together, and you look for your tribe.
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The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.
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I don't understand what A grade commercial cinema is. If you are talking about box office success, mine are A+ then!
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Definitely for me, my personality, having children was a definite sea change. I found it very, very hard to balance show business and being a dad. The narcissism of show business and the complete, total focus of it was very difficult.
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I feel nowadays a lot of bands can be too overly produced. There's something about the leather pants and bare bodies and Axl Rose running back and forth on a stage and going crazy. I love all that.
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I just want to do my job.
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For me, if I'm just killing time, I play solitaire. I'm also guilty of playing Snood. I like games where I can shoot balls and match colors.
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I condemn everyone and anyone who commits acts of terrorism. And Hamas has committed acts of terrorism.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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I always think it's because of you know hard work, hard training. And if Susie's training hard, you know, why can't I train hard to get a world record. I'm doing the same thing.
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When we were growing up, women in their late 40s generally didn't dye their hair.
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It's not necessary that every film has to hit Rs 100 crore box office, or the Rs 50 crore budget. If the film makes double of its project budget, we consider that a hit, and that also means that the film is in profit.
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Politics is not an exact science.
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'Marco Polo' had some negative reactions in the press. Viewers have loved it, and the volume of viewing has been phenomenal.
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I love to rock 'n roll. But my finest suit, of all the things I do, is as a songwriter.
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Certainly there is, for the American Negro artist who can escape the restrictions the more advanced among his own group would put upon him, a great field of unused material ready for his art.
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I'm not cynical.
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For seven years I did very little theatre, and I have to make up some time.
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Would you believe I never went to a hockey game when I was living in Canada?
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I knew I could do anything I wanted to do and go anywhere I wanted to go and not have to worry if I could afford it.
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If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.
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We have not been together for 30 years, and it was a little weird. It was kind of strange playing the old songs. My favourite is “Electrics” (originally from the 1983’s Listen) because I have not played it for years. But again, it was very strange, it was like that was another band who recorded it.”
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Some people are ok with doing nothing all day after they retire, but then some people if they had nothing to do would go mad and start banging their heads against a wall.
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Parents are destined to sin against their kids; it's inevitable. As is narcissism and the human condition. Everyone has their ego and their ambitions. Life happens in between.
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Black, white, rich, poor - we galvanize through the hard times. We really see it happen in relationships. In the best and worst of those moments, you come together, and you look for your tribe.
