Kenya Barris Quotes
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I suppose illustration tends to live in the streets, rather than in the hermetically sealed atmosphere of the museum, and consequently it has come to be taken less seriously.
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In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.
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I always drive like a madman.
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I'm from Denver, and there is really nothing acting-wise to do there except for theater. I did everything I could get my hands on until I was able to make it to L.A.
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We had a kid. The kid was awesome. She didn't fall asleep easily. We complained about it. We got frustrated. But we didn't look for an out. We just accepted that this was part of parenting.
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One afternoon, on my way to the campus - I was majoring in political science at Nairobi University - a photographer by the name of Peter Beard stopped me in the street and asked me if I'd ever been photographed.
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There's no second chance on stage, and I was trained to make the most of my first chance.
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I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.
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Minor Threat was an important band, believe me that it was important it in my life, but it belongs to an era that no longer exists. I'm not nostalgic. I think music today is much more important, because something can be done about it.
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I could sing in English before I could understand it because I phonetically learned it from the musicals.
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I try to do things I love or care about for some reason.
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The first job of a writer is to be honest.
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Living in New York for 10 months was incredible; it was everything I thought it was going to be and more.
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Everybody likes a compliment.
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If you put music into your Vine, and it's really jumpy, just do it over again.
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I'm intrigued by people who are super adept at manipulating their own image. We all do it to a certain extent.
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I get recognized all the time, but not as Haley Bennett.
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No one man is superior to the game.
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Biographies, as generally written, are not only misleading but false... In most instances, they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of the truth.
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I tremble when I am reminded of the fact that I have to be in charge of this country and Parliament, which had been led by no less a person than Jawaharlal Nehru.
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There has been a decline in ethics and we've got to turn it around.
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Sometimes we walk into something that is not for us at all. We pretend it is. We think we can shrug it off like a coat, but it's not a coat at all, it's more like another skin.
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So that there is no misunderstanding from my perspective, I will suspend any player who tests positive for an illegal steroid. There will be no exceptions. The (players) union is aware of that and they accept it.
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No civil rights movement has gotten anywhere without the help of white liberals.
