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 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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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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People come up to me in bars and on street corners and they say to me, 'Hey, Paulsen, have you got any change?'
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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I feel like I'm put in a position where I have to engage with what people bring to my work, which is an expectation for me to talk about race because it's not normal for a black writer to be writing in the theatre.
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'Straight Outta Compton' is the album I'm least happy with. I threw it together in six weeks so we could have something to sell out of the trunk.
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America's always had a real passion for lunatic movements. That's one of the things we're probably known for around the world, I would imagine.
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I don't think I've ever been moulded but I think I am always learning.
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Any society which gives lip-service to the idea of equal opportunity is going to generate jealousy of others who are better off than you are, even if the thing that's in short supply can't be carved up and shared without destroying it.
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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.
