Kenya Barris Quotes
I'm a huge fan of writing for people rather than writing and then trying to wedge people in. I'd love to know who the people are before I can write for them. For me, it's a much more organic way to create characters.
Quotes to Explore
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I believe that you can always learn from observation.
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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From inside where I live, I feel like I just perceive events in a certain rational way. I often find it sad or poignant, and it may not make me laugh a bit. But I don't mind inventing a portrait that allows others to laugh if that's what they want to do.
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
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I smoke, isn't that terrible?
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I think America has a brilliant future.
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
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People see me now and ask if I'm still running. I may look like I am, but I'm really not. People think I still run every day but I ran for 25 years and I deserve to not do anything but walk or ride the bike with my kids.
Gail Devers -
Once the kids are in school, it's amazing what you can do.
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I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
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Growing up, you tended to just go through school to get out, then figure out what you want to do in this big ball of mud.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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Smoke machines are the best!
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I feel like, growing up, I watched football, obviously, and you see great players, and as a fan, you want to watch the best you can possibly watch, and you want to see what's capable of being made.
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To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'
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Normally I don't watch myself, because I'm not very objective.
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I think Teach for America has suffered from the fact that I did not teach, in a major way. I also think if I had taught, I wouldn't have started Teach for America.
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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
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I know that when I was a children's librarian, that was about 1940, boys particularly asked where were the books about kids like us, and there weren't any at that time.
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Activity and passivity must go together in asanas.
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I'm not going to lie to you: I'd prefer not to go to the gym and not to run.
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I'm a huge fan of writing for people rather than writing and then trying to wedge people in. I'd love to know who the people are before I can write for them. For me, it's a much more organic way to create characters.
