Brian Tyree Henry Quotes
Yale was one of the best moments in my life - also one of the hardest. I learned about community.
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Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.
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Beauty at 70 years old isn't the same as beauty at 20 years old, but it is stunning nonetheless.
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My first workshop was in Rome, and that was the start of House of Waris. In a little magical atelier, a goldsmith, his apprentice, his stone setter - and that was where it began.
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I originally envisioned myself doing something with the suffix 'ology' at the end of it, like marine biology or entomology. But after I started to do some acting gigs, I thought it wasn't a bad thing... I said to myself, 'I might as well keep riding this bus until the wheels fall off.'
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I think the attraction to Israeli women stems from the fact that we're exotic and the fact that there are many talented and beautiful women in Israel. I think that there is also greater awareness of Israel than before in the movie industry.
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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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My attitude is always one of sensuality, aggressive enthusiasm and a kind of outrageousness in my expression.
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The leader of the market today may not necessarily be the leader tomorrow.
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I am sure I am one of 2,000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.
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I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.
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Like parents, cooks shouldn't have favourites, but some recipes inevitably shine more than others.
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'A living dog is better than a dead lion.' Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion for this work, is at least a caged and toothless one. How can he oppose the advances of slavery? He don't care anything about it.
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'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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For better or worse, a lot of people who build things don't want to part ways. They don't have the short exit plan that a lot of the investors have.
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There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
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Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.
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Comedy is very difficult. I love it because when you do it right, it's the best feeling in the world.
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There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor.
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It’s a similar feeling from being in a community of punk rockers as a teenager and the feeling I still get today when I’m in a community of skeptical scientists. The idea with both is that you challenge authority, you challenge the dogma. You challenge the doctrine in order to make progress. The thrill of science is the process. It’s a social process. It’s a process of collective discovery. It’s debate, it’s experimentation and it’s verification of claims that might be false. It’s the greatest foundation for a society.
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The best example of all, to me, that our problems are both personal and cultural and political and social is the whole condition of the middle class economically.
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Yale was one of the best moments in my life - also one of the hardest. I learned about community.
