Kenya Barris Quotes

Writers' rooms are terrifying. You take someone whose never done this before, and this is their life's dream that is about to happen or not about to happen - that is an amazing amount of pressure to have.

Kenya Barris

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Being on set is difficult for the writer. Your job is done, and you have to step back and hand it over to the director.

John Niven

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Like many readers, I am continually in search of books that allow me to lose myself in an entirely unique universe.

Anita Shreve

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I was tired. I peaked. I left when I was on top. One year, I did 280 concerts.

Rod McKuen

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I even asked Eleanor Roosevelt difficult questions and she loved it.

Mike Wallace

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If there is any jarring at all in my photographs, it's because we are so used to ingesting pictures of everywhere looking beautiful.

Martin Parr

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The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals.

Jonathan Lethem

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We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

Jonathan Swift

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Well, ever since I was little, I knew that singing was what I wanted to do, and then I got into, you know, doing drama club and community theater.

Jordin Sparks

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The most obvious purpose of college education is to help students acquire information and knowledge by acquainting them with facts, theories, generalizations, principles, and the like. This purpose scarcely requires justification.

Derek Bok

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We never let go. Ever. Even with punctuation. It's frightening. I can't see anyone from any record company ever writing an email to Neil and not getting it back, with corrections.

Chris Lowe

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I think variety is the spice of sticking with an exercise routine, whether it's getting a dance tape one day, or getting a tape with those stretchy things to work with resistance on a different day.

Christie Brinkley

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People are like, 'Wow you started your own record label,' and treat me like I'm some sort of innovative genius, when I'm not at all. You've got the Internet and music - you put them together, and people hear your music.

Courtney Barnett

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