Brian Tyree Henry Quotes
I love the element of surprise, throwing people off of what they think they know about what I can do and who I am. I just want to keep doing that.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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Sweden is a small country, and a Swedish writer can barely make a living as an author. We were able to quit our jobs as journalists only after we had been translated into, among others, German.
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Whatever God or whatever higher power you believe in, they brought us to this earth in a perfect way, and you have to learn to love yourself. Otherwise, it's an exhausting way to be.
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My parents and my brother instilled in me my sense of humor. That's kind of the way we communicate with each other, and it's always been a way for me to get to know people.
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I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
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I have super-supercurly hair, and it's a constant struggle.
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You can't tolerate anybody attempting to threaten or intimidate your body. You must respond with force.
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Television has shied away from being too dark, because so much has happened to us recently here in the West, and people are sort of wanting to see more uplifting sorts of things.
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Unlike President Obama, I am not afraid to state, without a wink or a nod, that the government has no right to tell us who we can marry or not marry.
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One of the side benefits of staying in the closet is you can have a much bigger career.
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Pregnancy is something that I always love. It's about hope and the future and a new baby.
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My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.
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Through this experience we have been warned - learn everything, don't forget anything!
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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In Sierra Leone last year there was just the two of us hanging out of a helicopter and, when we were in Bosnia, I drove an armoured vehicle, thousands of miles.
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You have to train people how to be business innovators. If you don't train them, the quality of the ideas that you get in an innovation marketplace is not likely to be high.
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All those who are around me are the bridge to my success, so they are all important.
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I prefer to underplay scenes rather than, you know, be big and drive them. And sometimes you have to do that, but I like the more natural styles.
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If I could I would kiss his wrists.If I had half the courage to face his pain.
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It's not my job to hold your hand. It's my job to take motivated people and show them how to become better.
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People have been warning us that language was going to the dogs ever since Latin started turning into French. Yet the dogs in question never seem to emerge yelping on the horizon.
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Oh! We already, we done already done it, done it, dammit! I could you know, like, sing a thing, and then not sing it for a little while, and then sing it again... and people would be like, 'Why'd he sing that again?'
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Researchers have compared brain scans of those people who are making money to those high on cocaine and found that them to be almost identical. Money has a biological and psychological effect on us.
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I love the element of surprise, throwing people off of what they think they know about what I can do and who I am. I just want to keep doing that.
