Brian Tyree Henry Quotes
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The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
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I like to get suggestions on what to read. I'll look at Twitter, people I like, people I admire... I'll go and research the book, download it on my phone and read it while I'm on the road.
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There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.
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Anybody that's been in an election, you're always looking to get the upper hand.
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Of course we've been fighting against stereotypes from Day One at East West. That's the reason we formed: to combat that, and to show we are capable of more than just fulfilling the stereotypes - waiter, laundryman, gardener, martial artist, villain.
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I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.
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The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
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I want to have an impact on my son.
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We sometimes think that being a celebrity is the same as being a role model. But a role model is actually someone you can touch, talk to and dream with.
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I like the idea of growing old gracefully and full of wrinkles... like Audrey Hepburn.
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Anyone who knows me well will tell you that arrogance is one of my flaws.
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Lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and... stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to 'walk about' into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want?
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I think a great starting point for a debate and discussion over a national consumption tax is, let's start with the Fair Tax, legislation that has been written up and, I think, signed up on by 80 congressmen and women.
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At the age of 16, my father's father dropped dead of a heart attack. And I think it changed the course of his life, and he became fascinated with death. He then became a medical doctor and obviously fought death tooth and nail for his patients.
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If people think I look good, it's the make-up.
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The birth of the African Union should encourage us to reexamine relations between African States.
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Training is my drug. I'm going to be the best I can in and out of the water - train right, eat right - and that is the way it should be.
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My mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything.
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It gives a different kind of high when, as an actor, I get to submit myself to the character I play.
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When you have three days to work on a scene, you can give all that love to the movie.
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If you stand at an election and put a manifesto in front of people saying you're going to improve health care, you have to stick by that.
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All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.
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Being a writer usually entails a fairly quiet life. However much travel one might do, however many tours and appearances, the job entails solitude: long hours in libraries, long hours at a desk.
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Every single person you can think of called me Paper Boi.
