Kenya Barris Quotes

The thing that I get so often with network comedies - and, I think, some of the most brilliant people in the world do them - but it's easy to hide behind a joke. I kind of feel like when you have to face things, and you don't have humor, it becomes very vulnerable; it exposes your deepest and darkest fears in some aspects.

Kenya Barris

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HumorPeopleWorldFaceThinkYou

I was shot down by a fifth ball, which struck me squarely in the face, and passed out.

John Brown Gordon

MeFaceDownBallOutShot

'17 Again' was one of the best times of my life. The whole cast was really close. We were like a family. When we weren't working, we'd all hang out. It was a great group of people.

Melissa Ordway

LifeFamilyGreatBestPeopleGroup

There's not a human being alive I won't talk to. There's a quite simple rule. If you like somebody more than you dislike them you can have a relationship. Once you accept you like 75 per cent but 25 per cent you find irritating for this or that reason, you just have to ignore that 25 per cent.

Robert Powell

RelationshipSimpleIgnoreYouFind

If you don't get out among the people, how are you going to know what they need to hear about?

Mavis Staples

PeopleYouKnowNeedOutGoing

I remember being on a black-and-white set all day and then going out into daylight and being amazed by the colour.

Jeff Bridges

DayRememberBlack-And-WhiteColour

People sometimes forget all the films that we've done. They remember the likes of 'Malcolm X' and 'Do the Right Thing.' But I've been working since 1986. From the beginning, I was determined to not just be a flash in the pan. I've got to keep up with Woody Allen. He's lapping me.

Spike Lee

BeginningDo The Right ThingPeople

When it comes to lyrics, I just write down a lot of things, and only a very tiny fraction of it, I think, is any good.

Matt Berninger

GoodThinkDownWriteThingsJust

It just doesn't occur to an American that someone else will solve their problems. Americans take pride in solving problems for themselves. And if we fail, we get back up and try again. It's what we do. It's who we are.

Mitch McConnell

ProblemsPrideAmericanSomeoneBack

I have a few customers who have two or three hundred bags. When you see a lady carrying a little dog bag or a little cat bag or an egg, it makes you happy.

Judith Leiber

DogHappyBagLadyEggYou

Marxism is essentially a product of the bourgeois mind.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

MindProductMarxismBourgeois

We are ever on the threshold of new journeys and new discoveries. Can you imagine the excitement of the Wright brothers on the morning of that first flight? The anticipation of Jonas Salk as he analyzed the data that demonstrated a way to prevent polio?

Joseph B. Wirthlin

MorningDataYouNewAnticipation

I can't think of a community that couldn't benefit from communal thinking.

Christina Tosi

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