Brian Tyree Henry Quotes
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Every time a congressman or pundit says its 'class warfare' to increase taxes on the wealthy, it's a massive lie.
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
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I'm always thinking of stuff; I just don't sit down and write it. I come up with material more as I go along; if something funny happens, I'll make a note of it on my phone.
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I love to write.
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It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which warrants slavery.
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I like to add something unusual to a dish.
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Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.
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AIDS had won gays sympathy; they no longer seemed the privileged brats that the general populace had resented in the 1970s.
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I don't tend to do much with my lips. My lips are naturally very pink, so if I add any more colour, it looks like I've been smacked in the mouth!
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The peculiar foreign superstition that the English do not like love, the evidence being that they do not talk about it.
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John Parsons: Don’t you think such a theory, such a radical theory, is anti-social?
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We do not argue with the critic who urges that the stars are not hot enough for this process; we tell him to go and find a hotter place.
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Damn it all, you can't have the crown of thorns and the thirty pieces of silver.
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And I got so drunk, I got so drunk that I actually woke up thinking, 'Should I get up and pee, or just pee in the bed?' Actually weighing the pros and the cons. 'Well, it'll be warm for a minute...it's a big bed, I'll just roll over...I'll just blame it on that guy!'
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Paddy Ashdown: ...this is an agreement which the right hon. Lady will be entitled to regard with a certain pride and satisfaction as she looks back on the twilight days of her premiership...
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What I learned in 'Sons' is that I would come in with a blueprint of a season and how it would go, and I realized that the looser my grip was, the better it became because the story found itself. Things happened as I wanted them to in terms of the bigger mile markers, but the fun part was I never knew how we would get there.
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The death penalty, I think, is a terrible scar on American justice, especially the concept of equal justice under law, but also of due process. And it goes state by state, and it's different in different states.
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If you develop a dialogue with me and take an interest in me, I'll want to give you the business. It's human nature.
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Consecration is only possible when we give up our will about EVERYTHING.
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I think a lot of things get blown out of proportion in the media.
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It's getting hard to keep up with all of the news from Washington - witch hunts, conspiracy theories and Republicans tearing each other apart over who is ideologically pure and who is apostate. It's a real set of carnival sideshows.
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At lucky moments this emanation could overwhelm the spectator in such a way, that because of all sorts of associations in his thinking, he could finally be taken to those areas which also had moved me so deeply and made me think I should draw the attention of others to it.
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When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman.
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Atlanta, in itself, is its own living, breathing thing.
