Brian Tyree Henry Quotes
The most important thing I feel in the acting profession is to create a community that reflects you back to you.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.
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Actors are greedy. They can never be satisfied. I want praise as well as box office returns.
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I want audiences to see me in different avatars.
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I started working out, eating a good diet, and just did everything I could that I thought would benefit me. I also started studying a lot harder in school. It matured me a remarkable amount and made me completely focused.
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I love the Web, but the basis of my work is going through the physical books. When you go to the library, you see other books around on the shelves that you never knew existed. You can flip through a book and see the whole outline of it.
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A lot of what gets on the radio isn't saying anything other than somebody wants to be famous and will do whatever they're told to get it.
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As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
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My opinion, having done this now for two cycles, is I think the national media really likes me and likes what I have to say. But, at the end of the day, 'He's a Libertarian,' and that denotes some loose screws, maybe.
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When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly.
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A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
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While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.
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Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing.
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You don't see many Jon Jones's.
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A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement.
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Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.
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I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
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Many financial and industrial companies have been bailed out with the public's money, but very few of those who had run those companies have been punished for their failures. Yes, the top managers of those companies have lost their jobs - but with a fat pension and mostly with a handsome severance payment.
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My main ambition as a gardener is to water my orange trees with gin, then all I have to do is squeeze the juice into a glass.
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I write books for young adults because I truly connect with them on some very deep level. They are our hope, our future, and inspiring them to be the best they can be is very important to me.
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As of right now, I'm still waiting to meet Halle Berry. And she is single.
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Young Baby Boomers were forced to play duck-and-cover in school, in hopes that a desk would protect them from an atomic explosion. It was all bullshit, and they knew it. They were questioning the entire adult establishment, and that was the root cause of juvenile delinquency. It was also the root cause of EC's success; kids were looking for ways to numb themselves to this horror that they felt.
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The most important thing I feel in the acting profession is to create a community that reflects you back to you.
