Brian Tyree Henry Quotes
In my household growing up in Fayetteville, N.C., music was the great communicator between my parents and me.
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I don't think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or not. My parents come from a very strictly defined culture.
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I was noticed by a person from a local model agency, and he proposed that I participate in a beauty contest Miss Chelyabinsk.
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I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.
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An image of the Earth, its landscapes, directly affects people. The beauty of the Earth creates enormous emotion, and through that emotion, you can transmit knowledge and raise consciousness.
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I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
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My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.
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I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
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I think it's fun to get in a room and sweat with people. I'm happy to share my workouts with everyone.
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I definitely like performing to a crowd that's there to see a female hero.
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There's obviously a group who enjoys what Tyler Perry is putting out there. And why fault them? And there's a group that loves the things that Spike does. So they should enjoy that, too. Is it my taste? Maybe not, but I'm not going to fault anybody for doing what they're doing as long as people are showing up.
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I was the first one to allow a projectile to come off of the stage and into the audience. And I kind of take responsibility for the mosh pit.
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The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.
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Do people ever ask me to say 'Wow?' Never in interviews, but a few times on the street. I don't do it. I try to get away from them as quickly as possible and explain that I'm not a performing seal.
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There's always a mismatch between small entrepreneurial outfits and large companies, which often don't have the same outlook.
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Time is important to me because I want to sing long enough to leave a message. I'm used to singing in churches where nobody would dare stop me until the Lord arrives!
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I'd rather be dealt with as a person than a persona.
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It's fun to tease people about where fiction and life intersect.
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The west has a great deal to answer for in the Middle East, from Britain's belated empire-building after the First World War to the US and British policy that condemns modern Iraq to the material and social squalor of a half-century ago.
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I subscribe to the online Urban Dictionary's definition of nerd: 'one whose IQ exceeds his weight'. I'm also keen on the same Urban Dictionary's definition of geek: 'the person you pick on in high school and wind up working for as an adult'. I happily proclaim myself a book nerd/reading geek and proud of it.
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I hadn't grown up always aspiring to be a CEO.
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A great fight that I'd love is B.J. Penn. That would be so awesome. He's a veteran of the sport. He's fought everywhere.
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In my household growing up in Fayetteville, N.C., music was the great communicator between my parents and me.
