Brian Tyree Henry Quotes
I have been the hugest HBO fan since I was 3, watching programming that I had no business watching as a child.
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Claiming to 'fight for small business' is often used as a political tool in Washington D.C., but it is actually the policies behind that battle cry that small firms care about.
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Being on the road with rock, it's pretty much 90 percent guys.
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I discovered what it meant to 'live for Christ,' and that it honestly was something I wanted to do. The facts were there, and I could sense the Holy Spirit at work.
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You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.
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I don't think I'm really open to having Washington change me.
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Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.
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Usually, historical revelations come from days of legwork, ploughing through piles of letters and papers in archives or even private homes, looking for the telling phrase or letter that someone else has missed.
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It's never been difficult for me to say no. I have never given excuses like I don't have dates. I have never over-quoted to avoid a project. I simply say that while the script might be good, I can't connect with it. My strategy is that while I wouldn't want anyone to waste my time, I shouldn't be doing that, either, with others.
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Everyone should learn to tango in Argentina before they die.
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My confidence is easy to shake. I am very well aware of all of my flaws. I am aware of all the insecurities that I have.
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Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.
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Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.
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A lot of people love the idea of improvising but are terrified of it, so I tried to make a book that was not a chef's book about improvising but a real home cook's book with a real home cook's pantry, supermarket ingredients, that sort of thing.
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It's funny, because when I was in college, all my professors said, 'You should do comedy.' And I was like, 'No! No!' But I was able to get my foot in the door through comedy. I'm so grateful to have the opportunity to do it.
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Atheism is really nothing but a sorry litany of non-sequiturs, e.g., if God existed, why do we have all the evil and horrors in the world? But this presupposes that God is all-good, an obvious non-sequitur.
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I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound.
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Well, I certainly did not think that I could do worse.
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Every celebrity in the world, if their movie bombs or whatever, they hold their kid up on a magazine and say, 'I'm really a dad.'
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I think one of the biggest limitations for an artist is not being able to dream a golden dream. We're always saying, "Oh, we can make do with this," or "We can problem-solve this." But John Neumeier's creative process was very different from piecemealing. It was the first time I understood I could build something larger and that it could be and should be supported.
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I have this wholesome disposition in a lot of my characters. A certain earnestness.
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What's the challenge in writing a novel that few people will read? I'm more than happy writing what I do and have no plans to change that.
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There is more to life than show business.
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On the one hand, I am a businesswoman - on the other, a wife and a mother. Like many women, I have had to distribute time and attention between business and family. It is not at all easy to find that balance.
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I have been the hugest HBO fan since I was 3, watching programming that I had no business watching as a child.
