Brian Tyree Henry Quotes
I discovered that acting gave me this spark, this thing. Honestly, it was a way to survive.
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Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
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Jews had an outsider's eye on a lot of Western tradition.
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I read a lot of poetry, and I love what it does with language. I love music, too, and I think there's probably no coincidence there, that the rhythm of the words is almost as important as the words themselves, and when you can get the two working together, which usually takes me about 20 goes, I feel a huge satisfaction.
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There are so few movies that still cast on chemistry. Now it's often, like, this person's movies make this amount of money, and this person's movie makes that amount of money, so let's put them together.
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In basic training we had been told to watch out for Japanese spies.
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Chris Messina is amazing, and he's so serious - he's, like, a proper actor! He's got craft! I love to watch him. But not in a creepy way.
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My attitude to writing is like when you do wallpapering, you remember where all the little bits are that don't meet. And then your friends say: It's terrific!
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Too many African countries have already hit rock-bottom - ungoverned, poverty-stricken, and lagging further and further behind the rest of the world each day; there is nowhere further to go down.
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People always accused me of not smiling like my rival Olga Korbut, but that was just my personality. When you're balancing on a nine-inch beam, you have to concentrate. But if you look back at the footage, I was always smiling and waving at the crowd after my performances.
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I want people to recognize me for the work I do now as a model, and not something I did three years ago.
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There is no way Israel will deal with the Palestinians if the Palestinians do not understand the suffering of the Jewish people.
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I don't want to play earnest. I'd rather play somebody who's kind of sleazy. It's much more fun, especially in a comedy. You don't want to be some earnest guy who's just trying to do the right thing but can't. I want to be doing the wrong thing intentionally.
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One of the things the novel can do is address big questions in ways that are accessible to people. It's not that I want to teach people, but these are the things that interest me, and this is my medium for exploring ideas, and I think the potential of novels to do that is massive.
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The great thing about life - I'd rather not know and just hope I'm happy and healthy and I feel as good about my life as I do now.
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Once I'm awake, I'm awake, which helps when you have to run in the mornings.
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I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
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I'm always honest.
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This dark diction has become America's addiction.
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The problem in our country isn't with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. Look at the magazines, the newspapers around us - it's all junk, all trash, tidbits of news. The average TV ad has 120 images a minute. Everything just falls off your mind. You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
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School was horrific for me, constantly an outcast for being a geek.
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I vow to you I am as clean as a Cherub. Would you like a taste?
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Skill is a function of chance. It’s an intuitive best-use of chance situations.
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For the true student, everything that happens in daily life is a test.
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I discovered that acting gave me this spark, this thing. Honestly, it was a way to survive.
