Kenya Barris Quotes
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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I love the quality of TIDAL. I appreciate what they're trying to do and what they're trying to accomplish.
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Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?
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Paris and Nicky Hilton? Those girls will show up to the opening of a phone book. It's like a big joke.
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Jewelry, to me, is a pain in the derriere, because you have to be watching it all the time.
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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Practically, I am interested in television because it keeps me home and it's fast, and I exist in independent films mostly, and you don't get paid for those, or you don't get paid enough.
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If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse.
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But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.
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You never know what the future holds, so I am just enjoying being happy, healthy, and having my wonderful husband by my side.
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I remember the Curia said, that's up to the American bishops, not up to Rome.
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When I was probably 5 or 6, my mother put me into an acting, singing, and dancing class.
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We couldn't pitch the show without having created one, at least one 20 to 25 minute version of 'Broad City.' We wouldn't know how to describe it.
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I think what probably happens when you put two awkward/clunky people together is that their awkward/clunky world seems like a normal world.
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The zeitgeist is for cutting spending and balancing the budget. But I do not want the Republican Party to be perceived as putting the budget ahead of people, jobs and education.
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There is this aura that the three-act play is the important one: it's the one that you do to win the Pulitzer. Some part of you falls for that, and then after a while, you don't fall for that.
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We're not Seattle East. We're our own Atlanta, and there are definitely things I learned from Coach Carroll. He had probably the single biggest influence on my coaching career.
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Ambition never is in a greater hurry than I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.
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As a citizen of this country, I've got to be honest to the people of South Africa.
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Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.
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I was walking around with the babies so much that when I got to the Sidney Lumet picture, I would be on set in between takes and I'd be rocking back and forth. Just standing like this rocking back and forth, and Sidney would say, Why are you walking like that in between takes?
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It takes madness to find out madness.
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I live a fairly simple life, and that didnt change much after I sold TechCrunch in 2010. I didnt buy a new house or even a new car. The one thing I did splurge on was a boat. Nothing too fancy or large.
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I want to start really developing more on the film side.
