Kenya Barris Quotes
As a creative, you have to be your truest form. You can't worry about fitting into whatever boxes people want to put you in.
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I like everything perfect. Everything has to be neat. My sister is 5, and she's more messy than I am. I make my bed every morning, everything's perfect. My shoes are all arranged. It's sad. I'm a little like Ray, a little bit.
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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.
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Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.
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My friends in the TV news business are in a state of despair about Donald Trump, even as their bosses in the boardroom are giddy over what he's doing for their once sagging ratings.
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I've never been good at meditation, but surfing is the closest I've ever come to that inner something.
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After having children, life becomes about living beyond yourself; about being bigger and better.
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A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
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I do love traveling, so I've been able to travel a lot.
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More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.
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Historical costumes from the 18th and 19th centuries look so complicated, but when you see the patterns, it's very systematic. I've always been impressed by how the patterns economize the fabric.
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Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences. Ask a question, translated into many languages and somebody, somewhere in the world, will have an answer.
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All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.
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I've been very ill. You just have to trust the Lord.
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Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.
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American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan. But they don't know what to copy.
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I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
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Sometimes you have to exercise your insanity, to really make it strong.
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People are going to go where they get characters that they remember.
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I didn't really take a lot of any on-camera classes or anything like that. I really just threw all of my energy into auditioning, and I know that I basically just did things based on feedback that I would get.
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The American people, taking one with another, constitute the most timorous, snivelling, poltroonish, ignominious mob of serfs and goosesteppers ever gathered under one flag in Christendom since the end of the Middle Ages.
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People are self-absorbed. I think that the mass ability of communication now probably allows individuals to meet more self-absorbed individuals. It has certainly changed the way that people meet.
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When I think about athletes, probably my favorite guest of all time among baseball players was Ted Williams.
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I wouldn't live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
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As a creative, you have to be your truest form. You can't worry about fitting into whatever boxes people want to put you in.
