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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'Hannity' had a a guy on that said, 'I fathered 20 kids by 14 mothers.' That is s cultural issue which has demeaned our society and has caused our society dearly in terms of imprisonment. Who's going to be the fathers to those children? Who's going to pay child support?
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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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Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.
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In middle school, you're figuring out how you're affecting people, and sometimes you're affecting people negatively. And what sucks is that it can affect people for their whole lives. I didn't realize I was a part of that.
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It became very clear to the director that it would be foolish not to use our friendship. I had tried to talk to him about it because all the relationships in the film are so, not negative, but antagonistic. There's not a lot of love going around.
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I can't stand the gossip of celebrities' lives, all the time! Every minute!
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I think the Supreme Court has not yet caught up to an era in which one keeps one's papers in a cloud, not a castle.
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In my household growing up in Fayetteville, N.C., music was the great communicator between my parents and me.
