Kenya Barris Quotes
I hear a creak in my house, and I'm calling the police immediately, but at the same time, I do know that when I call them, I'm going to make sure to say, 'I'm a black guy, and this is my house.'
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The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.
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A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good - which is the family.
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For the most part, I don't have a Facebook page; I don't Twitter.
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Acting is in your soul.
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Why did I elope with my husband after knowing him for only four months? I wish I could show people the picture of the two of us that night and have them feel what I felt. But it's just a picture. It can only capture how things looked, not how they felt.
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If the 'Post' can play the role of a connector between the West and the East, I have confidence in the paper's future success.
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I've never had to pitch a movie to a studio. I usually just let people read the script, then I cast it. I always think pitching is for baseball.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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I think it's important to experience kindness so that you can experience it more in the future. I believe that patterns of emotional behavior are set down before adolescence. And I think that if you have not observed kindness, you will not recognize it. You have to experience kindness in order to be kind.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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In the year 3000, everything will be instant.
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Hear the other side.
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As a tennis player you can win and you can lose, and you have to be ready for both. I practised self-control as a kid. But as you get older they both - winning and losing - get easier.
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If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
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Send out a cheerful, positive greeting, and most of the time you will get back a cheerful, positive greeting. It's also true that if you send out a negative greeting, you will, in most cases, get back a negative greeting.
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Because of my crazy work schedule, I have become something of a master at changing my clothes while driving. The men driving next to me love it.
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Large credit guarantees also impede optimal allocation of financial resources and increase moral hazard.
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A victim is a victim is a victim. We should stop setting up standards that say we will have one standard of law enforcement for one group of victims but not for another.
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Nothing beats weaving through the rush-hour traffic or whizzing past the eternal gridlock that is the Strand.
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For a long time, I believed that a great piece of music on its own could do more to stir the soul than any other single art form.
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When I'm really fixated on a bit of writing, I can easily spend six days without leaving the house and barely leaving my room.
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I hear a creak in my house, and I'm calling the police immediately, but at the same time, I do know that when I call them, I'm going to make sure to say, 'I'm a black guy, and this is my house.'
