Brian Tyree Henry Quotes
At Morehouse, I found myself and my voice, and I didn't want to lose that at Yale.
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I like to do everything you can possibly do before you go into rehearsal, because once we are in rehearsal or on the stage there will be a problem I didn't anticipate. It's really good to think we got it all nailed - of course you've never got it all nailed.
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It's such a weird self-confidence that an artist has - to conceive of this thing that serves no function and say, 'I'm going to really work hard for it and give it and it's just going to matter to people.' You really have to believe it all on your own.
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We don't think that we are in a quarrel with anybody. We may have a difference of opinion, but we'll not allow such differences of opinion to grow into a problem that stands in the way of reconstructing the country and regaining the democratic path.
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I'm probably borderline OCD. I insist on having all objects at right angles to each other. So a fork has to be at a right angle to the knife on the table. The salt and pepper pots have to be placed close together. Only recently have I started to notice it's a weird way to behave.
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You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.
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I mean rappin' to me is easy, it's something you can do over a week.
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I've always known that I'll have a career for the rest of my life because they'll always make movies about men, and men need women in their lives. But, when it comes to telling a woman's story, they're complex, circular, and not genre-driven.
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It may be that Tolstoy and Virginia Woolf were sitting around fretting about their Amazon reviews or their pre-pub whatever, but I kind of doubt it. I don't think that's how the work probably got made.
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I still like my antique clothes.
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When a relationship with a director is really working, you have the same idea at the same time. You go, 'Look, this isn't working,' and they'll go, 'I know it's not working. What are we gonna do?' And you go and try something else.
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Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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I was all about my thoughts, my work, my inspiration. I was always in hair.
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Our experience at Teach For America has been that the more people understand educational inequity, the more they want to do something about it.
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Once I'm working on something, I don't do anything else. I'm mono-track.
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I loved making 'Rising Sun'. I got into the psychology of why she liked to get strangled and tied up in plastic bags. It has to do with low self-worth.
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Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world.
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D.C.'s a tough place to get love unless you're from D.C. It's like everybody hates you here. The only black person that everyone can agree on is Obama.
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Finland, and all the other European countries, we are too dependent on imported energy. We should be using a broader variety of energy resources.
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'The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry lies.'
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Jamal Crawford reminds me the most of myself, the way he goes to the basket. But they need leadership.
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I want you to read the true system of the heart, drafted by a decent man and published under another name. I do not want you to be biased against good and useful books merely because a man unworthy of reading them has the audacity to call himself the Author.
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Nothing matters but the facts. Without them, the science of criminal investigation is nothing more than a guessing game.
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I felt like going out on the road and mixing it with music - which is something young people are always really interested in - would be a good way to proselytize. It was like feminist evangelism.
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At Morehouse, I found myself and my voice, and I didn't want to lose that at Yale.
