Brian Tyree Henry Quotes
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If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.
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I keep waiting for a paradigm shift to happen that will let network and studio execs see that sci-fi is the same as any other genre in terms of how you approach it - logically, character-based, with challenging ideas and forward thinking - but I worry that it might never happen in my lifetime.
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
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I'm not going to lie; the most fun of writing these books is just saying, 'Where am I going to write about? Let me go there!'
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The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.
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When I think back now to the recording sessions, there is more improvisation than one hears. It's an ideal combination of arrangements and improvisation. Only a few people are able to listen and say what is composed and what is improvised. It's a unit.
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I love wearing men's clothing and underwear.
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We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.
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I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.
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We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.
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Thoughts are mental energy; they're the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don't want.
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We need to have women in more powerful positions that are making decisions, so when that 10-year-old girl is looking up and wondering, 'What can I do and what do I want to be when I get older?' She has the opportunity to do and be whatever she wants.
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Actors go inside the heads of other people and are not afraid of the complicated places you can find yourself.
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Lots of people think the violence in the films I make is overwhelming, but they think they're seeing something that they aren't seeing.
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At the base of Ron Paul support, in my opinion, are people with brains.
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The man who would forge to the front in this competitive age must be a man of prompt and determined decision.
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Long time ago, people would make the Bible, right? The guy said it, somebody wrote it down. And then if you wanted another copy of it, another human being wrote another one. It took a long, long time. Somebody created this thing called mimeograph paper and so you said, 'OK, we'll do it that way.' And so you could get three of them.
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It's not like I'm sitting at home coming up with some secret beauty plan.
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I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant.
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For me, I always have to establish a reality for the character. In very actor-y terms, you just have to understand his reality.
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I am more interested in fair and balanced trade between nations than I am in free trade that encumbers us in a multinational pact that is refereed by the WTO.
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I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech.
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I dare somebody to go to Atlanta and not have a good time.
