Brian Tyree Henry Quotes
My school had the dopest arts program - the dopest show choir, the dopest marching band. I couldn't sing or play an instrument a lick, but I was just going to fake it till I make it.
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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In Holy Cross, I came to like school, to like studying in a way I had never done before.
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I had a high school sweetheart that was my first. We were together all through high school. I had just broken up with him because I didn't think I was good enough. He wanted to be an anesthesiologist. I wanted to be an entertainer. His life was more planned out, and mine wasn't.
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I went out with this boy on the proviso that he didn't tell anybody we were together. The idiot didn't keep his mouth shut. I dumped him. I never went out with a boy from school again.
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I got sent to a health camp when I was about 6 years old, and we all had to wear the same starchy blue uniform. The lady who took care of me after school knit me a burgundy sweater. It was the only thing that gave me any individuality.
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We owe our public servants, from school teachers to state employees, a sustainable and well-funded retirement that they can count on.
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I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do.
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I always did TV commercials and made great money to put myself through school. That became guest starring roles on TV shows.
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I'd always loved strings. When I was in high school and saw strings playing on stage, an orchestra or a symphony, all those bows moving at the same time... wow.
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My childhood was a happy one. I was captain of the school sports team and played cricket after class. I had five younger siblings and a large loving family that lived together. We are still very close.
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When I graduated from Parsons School of Design, the dean at that time said I would never be a designer. Obviously I didn't listen.
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When I was working a lot, I felt guilty as a parent. I couldn't pick up my son every day from school, bake him cookies and that kind of thing.
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All the art for Tool is done by the me and the band.
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With a rock band, you play the same things over and over and over.
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Every step, whether at high school or at college or at the NFL, I had to climb and crawl and scratch to get there.
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We shot 'High School Musical' in eight weeks. I spent longer rehearsing for 'Hairspray' than filming 'High School Musical'.
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I'm not someone who went to acting school - I was just out of the gate, doing it.
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What you hear about the band is always going to be more disturbing than any particular song.
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I've always been scared to death of pain - afraid, even, to think of it.
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The main aim of the Palestinians is to destroy the state of Israel.
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I've shown, for twenty-plus years, with a legacy that will be talked about way after I'm gone, that I am different.
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I think acting and psychology are both looking at what makes human beings tick. I've always found that fascinating.
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My school had the dopest arts program - the dopest show choir, the dopest marching band. I couldn't sing or play an instrument a lick, but I was just going to fake it till I make it.
