Kenya Barris Quotes
I am what I am as a writer because of Norman Lear and Spike Lee. Norman Lear in particular.
Quotes to Explore
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One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time.
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Prop 8 did something that no other state in the history of this country has done. It took away the rights of people that already were legally affirmed. Imagine someone putting something on the ballot saying your wedding, your marriage is no longer valid.
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My father had very little formal education.
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I am only about winning and getting better.
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I am so lazy and sometimes will go as late as 9 A.M. to shoot.
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Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
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It's important to be active in the causes that are important to you... That's how we make changes in this world.
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Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.
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I was in 'Goodwin Games,' which was canceled, and a few other things, so I kind of swore off television unless I was writing or producing it.
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We have deep depth.
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I've made a lot of game-winners.
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A period of time is as much an organising principle for a work of fiction as a sense of place. You can do geography, as Faulkner did, or you can dwell on a particular period. It provides the same framework.
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I played guitar and bass. I didn't do much vocals, although I did have one band where I was the lead singer. But that was when I was in college.
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Life is hard. Not great. Kind of tragic.
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You are repetitious and stupid.
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Men will not forget that Pancho Villa was loyal to the cause of the people.
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But supposing one tries to live by Pantheistic philosophy? Does it lead to a complacent Hegelian optimism?
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Could women's liberation ever be a revolutionary movement, not rhetorically but on the ground?
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The people who ask me for my autograph are the people who've put me here today, and you can't afford to forget that.
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One of the most, in a weird way, encouraging things a director can say to an actor - I know this as an actor - is when you ask them a question, they say, I don't know - 'cause it means there's some space there for you to find out. And it means that there's going to be a process.
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I'm an actor and it happened to go my way that day.
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Each and every day, Israel's very existence is at stake.
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I am what I am as a writer because of Norman Lear and Spike Lee. Norman Lear in particular.
