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.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Time
  • Lie
  • Taxes

• 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.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Hope
  • Me
  • Star

• 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.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Funny

• I love to write.

  

  Kara Hayward
  • Love
  • Write
  • I Love

• 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.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Law
  • Religion
  • Slavery

• I like to add something unusual to a dish.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Like
  • Something
  • Unusual

• I was a curious child. I'd debate with anyone who came to the door - people from the Islamic community... Jehovah's Witnesses... anyone.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Community
  • Child

• Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Good
  • Art
  • Always

• AIDS had won gays sympathy; they no longer seemed the privileged brats that the general populace had resented in the 1970s.

  

  Edmund White
  • Sympathy
  • Aids
  • General

• 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!

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Pink
  • Lips
  • Colour

• The peculiar foreign superstition that the English do not like love, the evidence being that they do not talk about it.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • English

• John Parsons: Don’t you think such a theory, such a radical theory, is anti-social?

  

  Margaret Sanger

• 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.

  

  Arthur Eddington

• Damn it all, you can't have the crown of thorns and the thirty pieces of silver.

  

  Aneurin Bevan

• 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!'

  

  Margaret Cho
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Guy

• 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...

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • She
  • Pride
  • Twilight

• 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.

  

  Kurt Sutter
  • Fun

• 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.

  

  Burke Marshall
  • Different
  • American
  • Death

• The act of writing surprises me all the time. A miraculous thing happens when you have an idea and you want to convert it into words... and then you start to create a work of art, and that's another miracle, and it remains mysterious to the writer, or to this writer anyway.

  

  Janette Turner Hospital
  • Time
  • Work
  • Writing

• They came in and got into an offensive rhythm. Games like these aren't won or lost at the end against great teams. You can't let a team go on a run and expect to win.

  

  Dan Monson
  • Lost
  • Games
  • Rhythm

• The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.

  

  Franz Kafka
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Experience

• We are hungry for things that have touched human hands.

  

  Faith Popcorn
  • Hands
  • Hungry
  • Popcorn

• Atlanta, in itself, is its own living, breathing thing.

  

  Brian Tyree Henry