Kenya Barris Quotes
'A Different World,' for me, was in a lot of ways responsible for me going to college. I wanted to go to a black college, and I wanted to get out of Los Angeles. It's just a natural part of all of our journeys, that idea of leaving home.
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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We are paying the price for living longer, collecting degenerative diseases along the way. Cancer is only one. Others are heart and brain diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinsons.
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I love Nelly. He's such a great performer. He's so hyper and so am I.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
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I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win - if you don't, you won't.
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The public needs to know - they need to know as much about atrial fibrillation as they do about cancer and diabetes.
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My mother had an illegal abortion in 1960, which was the year the birth control pill came out, but I guess a little late for her, but - and I never knew. I found out when my father, after her death, got her FBI file.
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You learn stuff from every character you play about the human condition that can be quite enlightening.
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I was a normal American nerd.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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People assume actresses are afraid to get older; the truth is the roles get a whole lot more compelling once you're too old to play dumb.
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'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.
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Pray to Christ for me that the animals will be the means of making me a sacrificial victim for God.
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The world expects India to be one of the leaders in solving the problems of politics and economics. India sits at the high table in most major multilateral deliberations. What India says is heard with attention and seriousness.
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I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?
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Logic leaves us no choice. In that sense, math always involves both invention and discovery: we invent the concepts but discover their consequences. … in mathematics our freedom lies in the questions we ask – and in how we pursue them – but not in the answers awaiting us.
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I enjoy getting gussied up for an event or date night.
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We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.
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As a writer, I don't have a sense of my own position. I try to disappear and not to think of myself at all when I'm working.
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It is in my nature to give the work I have all the discipline and due diligence that I am capable of.
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'A Different World,' for me, was in a lot of ways responsible for me going to college. I wanted to go to a black college, and I wanted to get out of Los Angeles. It's just a natural part of all of our journeys, that idea of leaving home.
