Brian Tyree Henry Quotes
Music has always been a part of my life, and it helps me a lot because it speaks for me when I can't speak for myself.
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When you first hear Mozart's music, your first impression is that it's very alive, but if you peel away the layers, you can hear sorrow and sadness behind it, and that's what I try to be: multi-layered.
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Remixes are so much fun. For me, it's like this great release of energy. I like producing stuff for myself, but I also enjoy making music that wouldn't really suit my own vibe.
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A play is much easier to maintain your personal life with because if you're rehearsing, you're working like from 11 to 6 or 11 to 5 and you get to have your whole morning and your whole evening. When you're doing the play, you have all day.
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The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.
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I worked as a head cook at courthouses and high schools. I left it behind when I started getting into my music real heavy.
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You aren't your work, your accomplishments, your possessions, your home, your family... your anything. You're a creation of your Source, dressed in a physical human body intended to experience and enjoy life on Earth.
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I was in my mid 20s when email finally took off. Until then, the phone was my primary way of connecting with the people in my life.
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I try to have a normal life since I have an abnormal job.
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The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law.
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I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.
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I like to be home with my son, kickin' it and watching ESPN, a very normal life. I like to take him to school every day, watch his games.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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If I wasn't dyslexic, I probably wouldn't have won the Games. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily... and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.
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I believe life is an 'experience ball.' You throw it at someone, it picks up their response... it grows. You play with that ball, learning what it teaches you.
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The people in your life are important. Meaningful relationships with those people are very important.
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I just don't consider myself to be, you know, an American actor. I don't want that life.
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To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
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Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life.
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Lovers of painting and lovers of music are people who openly display their preference like a delectable ailment that isolates them and makes them proud.
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I was born in northeastern China, where we have the privilege to see forests just out of the window. And I thought, I am going to do something because I cannot imagine my hometown without forests, and I cannot imagine the earth turned into a desert. From that day on, environment protection weighs the same in my life as my professional acting career.
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I'm very conscious of the luck I've had. It's important to have this in your mind and remember it.
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There's a lot of people I'd love to work with at some point, but I think the song has to be the right thing. It has to be the right fit.
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The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.
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Music has always been a part of my life, and it helps me a lot because it speaks for me when I can't speak for myself.
