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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In my novels, there are twelve ancient 'memory tools,' all now lost. Each of the 'Reincarnationist' books revolves around a different tool.
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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 don't necessarily see myself as an experienced filmmaker just because I've been in a few movies.
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I've always seen 'Y' as an unconventional romance between a boy and his protector. It was always about the last boy on Earth becoming the last man on Earth, and the women who made that possible.
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I was in a special class in high school for truants. They made us stay together all day. Once a week, they would send us to a guidance counselor. He would sit me in his office and he would try to talk to me.
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The important thing is that while heroin and cocaine and tobacco and every drug and junk food cause dopamine release, there are healthier ways that you can put this into your life. And the three big ones are intimacy ... physical activity ... and the third thing is music.
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What bothers you isn't so much whether you're beautiful or not. What bothers you is the way that people stare.
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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.
