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.Kenya Barris
Quotes to Explore
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I believe that you can always learn from observation.
Tamara Tunie -
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
H. L. Mencken -
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.
Madeline Kahn -
If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
Natalia Tena -
I smoke, isn't that terrible?
Kate Hudson -
When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
Karen DeCrow
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I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
Victor Hugo -
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.
Gabriel Iglesias -
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.
Sam Worthington -
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.
Dan Webster -
Smoke machines are the best!
Gail Carriger -
'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.
Harlan Coben
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I don't try to hurt people in any way, and I try to help out wherever I can.
Rajeev Shukla -
In Sierra Leone last year there was just the two of us hanging out of a helicopter and, when we were in Bosnia, I drove an armoured vehicle, thousands of miles.
Kate Adie -
You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
C. S. Lewis -
My mission is to support our service members. They're volunteers, and if they're going to go to a hostile place like Afghanistan, I think we owe it to them to back them up and try to help them get through it.
Gary Sinise -
A win for one is a win for all - and I'm not just saying that because Dumas did.
Felicity Huffman -
People don't want to serve apprenticeships any more. Kids expect to be paid and treated really well and all that guff before they've achieved anything. It doesn't work like that. You have to spend five or six years being relatively rubbish and put up with it. For that you don't deserve to be getting lottery money.
Daley Thompson
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I need to do more on stage. I've got to get my fix!
Rachel Brosnahan -
Everybody has a smartphone; everyone is a reporter.
Aaron Schock -
Wealth is just consistency... I don't want to be rich. I want to be wealthy.
Quavo Migos -
For a decade, I was a stay-at-home mom. I sent my husband to his law office, sat on PTA boards and baked cookies - great cookies. All of a sudden, I had no husband, no job, few prospects, and two small children who had grown accustomed to eating.
Gayle Lynds -
I'm far from being god, but I work god damn hard.
Jay-Z -
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.
Kenya Barris