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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When I was 12, I did my first sort of speaking role. But I wouldn't say I had a passion for it from the start. It developed as I started to become a bit more mature.
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Everyone has their awkward phase. I think everything passes, and that is key to remember - none of us looked like this when we were younger... Everybody grows into themselves, and you learn about yourself.
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But I loved the theatre and I was just doing theatre 24/7 and kept dropping courses because I didn't have the time and the chancellor thought that wasn't a good idea after awhile.
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I wouldn't change a thing in my own life, but I'd like to go back in time anyway though, just to some sort of eras that I wish I'd lived in - like the '60s. I'd love to have been in London in the '60s, partying away.
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We're all torn between the desire for privacy and the fear of lonliness. We need each other and we need to get away from each other. We need proximity and distance, conversation and silence. We almost always get more of each than we want at any one time.
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I say this all the time: All I know is I know nothing at all.
