Kenya Barris Quotes
You get a little older, and you start understanding the world in a different way and what you don't have control over and what you do have control over.
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If you are hopeful, if you are optimistic, other people want to help you. And if you are down in the dumps, other people may still help you, but I've noticed that they're walking, not running, over to you.
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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One of my strengths is connecting with the players.
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With 'Dance Moms' in L.A., we film on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. When we film in Pittsburgh, we film the same days, but we still dance in our studio when we're not filming, so I'm dancing every day except Sunday.
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Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.
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For any actor - not just talking about myself - but if you've been fortunate enough to work for a long period of time, there's going to be different choices you're going to make.
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I just sing the songs that people don't expect you to sing, because I just love having fun at karaoke and I'm always a bit nervous to sing something serious.
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What really makes it fun for an actor is when the script is good.
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Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
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There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
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We interpret our agreement with the IMF - our participation in the IMF's system of cooperation - as a borrowing agreement. The IMF sees it as an economic policy agreement. This is not in our interest.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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People will always challenge you on an idea as long as it has not been concretized by somebody else.
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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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I have a lot of admiration for people who've been in relationships a long time, married for years.
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I'm a big fan of Elvis, man. I got 'Heartbreak Hotel' tattooed on my chest.
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There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
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180 episodes of 'CSI: Miami' and never the same lipstick twice!
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In 1982, when Alexander Haig and [Ariel] Sharon put this plan to invade the south of Lebanon and Beirut, they imagined that in two or three or five days, they can demolish the PLO and destroy its infrastructure. What happened? The longest Arab - Israeli confrontation.
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Education promotes equality and lifts people out of poverty. It teaches children how to become good citizens. Education is not just for a privileged few, it is for everyone. It is a fundamental human right.
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A movie is painting, it's photography, it's literature - because you have to have the screenplay - it's music. Put a different soundtrack to a comedy and it's a tragedy. A movie combines all those forms and forces you to pay attention for two hours with a group of people.
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You get a little older, and you start understanding the world in a different way and what you don't have control over and what you do have control over.
