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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There definitely comes a time where a fresh pair of eyes and fresh leadership would be good, and the Conservative Party has got some great people coming up - the Theresa Mays, and the George Osbornes, and the Boris Johnsons.
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No, no, I didn't know him. He lost his mind around 1917 because of the tragedy of the Armenians.
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I am going to enjoy some other things apart from business.
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Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that before one can have any comprehension of the loyalty and trust of faith, one must first force one's mind to accept a host of incomprehensible doctrines. But this is to put the cart before the horse.
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I really connect with those moments of doing missionary work down there and just seeing the people that are dying from disease and hunger and malnutrition.
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No civil rights movement has gotten anywhere without the help of white liberals.
