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 Imagine someone putting something on the ballot saying your wedding, your marriage is no longer valid.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 was reading this story about these people who suffered from brain injuries, and then their behavior changed kind of drastically afterward, and I just said to myself, 'There's no way that that can possibly be true.'
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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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The way out of the maze of whiteness and blackness that led inevitably, repeatedly, to violent conflict was through the simple recognition of and respect for blacks and whites as not two races but one: the human race.
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The first pitch I played on, for my first club, Braine-le-Comte, was only a metre from our house! I progressed very quickly.
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The Re-Up Gang mixtapes are going down in history, man. I still listen to them in my car, and the 'Hell Hath No Fury' album. I tell people all the time that I'll never make another album like that one again. Never!
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Man is an essentially superstitious and fearful animal. Take away the herd's Christian gods and saints and they will without failing come to worship...something else.
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My family's really close.
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I had set out to disprove quantum field theory - and the opposite occurred! I was shocked.
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I am what I am as a writer because of Norman Lear and Spike Lee. Norman Lear in particular.
