Brian Tyree Henry Quotes
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There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.
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Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.
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There's nothing wrong with being anthropomorphic. That's how we understand the world.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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Discipline is not a nasty word.
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I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.
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I would hate for my father to regret all his support that he's given me over the years and be embarrassed by anything I chose to do.
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For me, it was not destiny to make it to where I am now - I thought for a long- time I would become a go-kart mechanic, or a job like this, not an F1 driver.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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Well all the big companies are really panicked by the internet thing and all that, and sales went down, although sales have gone up again in this country a bit and also the big companies, because they're so big, they need big sales really so they're not really interested.
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MTV in general is involved with so many artists - musicians, actors, people in the fashion industry, and art world.
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Every four years in the presidential election, some new precedent is broken.
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If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
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People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes by $15 billion and not lay off one state employee.
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If we continue to fight the National Rifle Association on their home court, which is the legislative front, I think we'll continue to be frustrated. But when you have an ability to go directly to the public, that's a completely different field of engagement, and I think the NRA is not adept at that kind of engagement.
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We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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It's true that I have a wide range of interests. I like to write and paint and make music and go walking on my own and garden. In fact, gardening is probably what I enjoy doing more than anything else.
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However far modern science and technics have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson: Nothing is impossible.
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That is the most important thing to me, what happens behind the closed doors in the studio and makes me an artist.
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It was OK, us being Reds during the war, because we were all on the same side. But then the Cold War started. Almost overnight we became enemies of people who were close friends - they crossed the street to avoid us.
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If you're trying to do multiple agendas, you'll confuse yourself as a storyteller. If you have one purpose, everything else will fall into place.
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Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides: Who cover faults, at last shame them derides.
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I say this all the time: All I know is I know nothing at all.