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Kenya Barris Quotes

Actors are magical people. They can take words you wrote and say them in a way that, although you thought the line was good when you wrote it, it's fantastic when it comes out of their mouth.

Kenya Barris

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Good Words People Thought You Mouth

Readings are more like weaving a tapestry. Possibly people are getting a cathartic release - but music is physical. Music pummels you. It's got a beat; it's loud. Whereas this is more cerebral.

John Darnielle

Music People You More Release Beat

I've always been with God, even in my darkest hour. That is why I say I am alive. I mean, I should have died a number of times.

Andy Dick

God I Am Alive Say Why Mean

I am the parent of teenagers, my daughters are 13 and 15, so the issue of Internet safety has been an important issue. I have been visiting middle schools to talk about some of the challenges that they face.

Melissa Bean

I Am Safety Challenges Face Parent

Every screenwriter worships at the altar of Robert Towne, and we do.

Stephen McFeely

Altar Every Screenwriter Robert

Politics gets me out of bed in the morning It's what really interests me. I'm a competitor, but I also feel like I'm contributing, whether it's working on health-care policy in the White House or out here in Chicago.

Stephanie Cutter

Morning Politics Me Feel House Bed

I'm a skinny kid from Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.

Tony Rock

Brooklyn Kid Skinny

In nominating young women and men to our service academies, it must only be about who you are, not who you know.

Ron Barber

Women Service Men You Know Young

So, when it comes to eating healthy, it's just doing the right thing. And it's not something you have to do 365 days a year, but I think it's something you have to do 25 days a month. Let's put it that way.

Mike Ditka

Eating Think Diet Doing Year You

All voices are important, and yet it seems that people of color have a lot to say, particularly if you look through the poetry of young people - a lot of questions and a lot of concerns about immigration and security issues, you name it - big questions.

Juan Felipe Herrera

Poetry People Color Name Questions

When I was growing up in the 1950s, sweaters were a huge thing.

Judy Blume

Growing Up Growing Up 1950s Sweaters

I like discovering stories where I'm laughing and I'm learning. It's like, 'How was I never taught that in school?'