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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With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store?
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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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Sometimes in someone's gestures you can notice how a parent is somehow inhabiting that person without there being any awareness of that. Sometimes you can look at your hand and see your father.
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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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The rites were just the husks left over from deeper things, no pith remaining and no mystery, nothing to lift up the soul or go to the brain like wine. And, as generally happens, the more truth the ritual lost the more they bolstered it with significance. There is a saying among the Moi: The chief is clad in gold and purple, only the god dares to go naked.
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There arose a belief in style - and in banality. Banality encompassed politics, too, because it was a common belief that politics were not worthy of art.
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From that moment on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again.
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I say this all the time: All I know is I know nothing at all.
