Home
Topics
Authors
:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

Kenya Barris Quotes

If Adam Sandler does a bad movie, he doesn't bring down the whole white race. But if Tyler Perry does, it's like, 'See what you guys do?' and that type of thing.

Kenya Barris

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: producer
Nationality: american
Birth: August 9, 1974

Topics

You Bad White Down Race See

When you're asked/told to come to Canberra by your Prime Minister, in the country I grow up in, you obey that.

Andrew Forrest

Grow You Country Grow Up Up Prime

I can muster up the courage in the difficult situations to get me through.

Megyn Kelly

Courage Me I Can Difficult Up Get

I've never read a script in which you are actively pulling for the protagonist in the beginning, but little by little, you lose that.

John Lee Hancock

Beginning You Lose Never Little

Everyone finds my work super sad. I never do. I always find it uplifting in a weird way.

Jeff Lemire

Work Sad Weird Find Way Never

Views are overrated; it's light that counts. I have an apartment in Miami's South Beach, and I get tired of looking at the ocean. Even that view gets old after a while. Sunlight streaming into a room - it never gets old.

Michael Graves

Light Beach Ocean Tired Looking

I look eight years older than everybody.

Stanley Elkin

Look Years Older Eight Than

I would be so mad if I saw something called a memoir, and then it was Mike Birbiglia. It would be so infuriating. It's like, 'Who is this guy, and why does he have a memoir?' David Letterman could write a memoir. Joan Rivers could. I'm just a nobody. I'm a comedian and a writer.

Mike Birbiglia

Mad Nobody Why Write Guy Something

Yoga is at the core of my health and wellness routine; even if it's only for 10 to 15 minutes I find it helps me to re-center and to focus as well as improve my overall core strength.

Miranda Kerr

Strength Health Focus Me Routine

I'm in a position where, if you have the ability, you should use it well. To get things done.

Christine Quinn

You Done Ability Position Things

I'm continually trying to make choices that put me against my own comfort zone. As long as you're uncomfortable, it means you're growing.

Ashton Kutcher

Me Comfort Zone Choices Uncomfortable

At the beginning of every semester, I ask my graduate students whether there is something I should read that will help me understand their work.

Alice McDermott

Work Beginning Me Help Understand

We start out talking about the story, trying to figure out who is who and what should happen, taking notes the whole time. Then I do a rough layout of the issue, showing what happens on each page. Then we discuss that some more.

Phil Foglio

Time Start Story Talking Trying Out