Brian Tyree Henry Quotes
Perceptions really do define what our realities are. What we're hoping to do with 'Atlanta' is to really shatter that. To shatter it completely wide open. To go from the furthest lane of absurdity to the furthest lane of reality and make them blend.
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The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.
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Kids have a great sense of humour. If you don't, you're going to miss out.
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The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense.
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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
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I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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My parents played the radio, but music was never an obsession or something that I thought I could call a career.
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Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
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I am in the infantry for 17 weeks and after that I don't know where I am going.
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In 2001, I moved from Philly to Atlanta, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but Philly, and you can imagine the culture shock; the Civil War seeps into daily life and conversation down South in a way it never does up North.
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We saw simply distribution was changing, content, premium content, premium stars; we're going to be able to do more in the world as it evolves.
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I hate to tell you this, but there's an entire subset of people out there who think of me as quite a dull actor. And that's the word used, and often – dull.
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I don't understand why people make me want to make music that's a join-the-dots thing by numbers. I find it really difficult when people say, 'Aw, you should have made a really big hip hop record, that would have been really good for you' or, 'You should have made a song like Lily Allen, that would have been so great.'
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I'm very happy to co-produce a film like 'Srimanthudu.'
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Poverty can teach lessons that privilege cannot.
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I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'm working on. Once I figure it out, that's the only thing I'll play.
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Pop knew absolutely nothing about pro football.
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It is not secret here in Congress we have not had the discipline in many instances to keep our hands out of the cookie jar of Social Security. Now to stop this I propose that in the future that Congress cannot get its hands on the money in the first place.
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A good history covers not only what was done, but the thought that went into the action. You can read the history of a country through its actions.
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The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism.
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If there's one thing that 'No Child Left Behind' has proven, it's that more academics don't make for smarter children - or even higher test scores. And yet we somehow refuse to accept this reality.
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It is not enough to say that something good, something beautiful is being born. We must help it become a reality - not a dream.
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Perceptions really do define what our realities are. What we're hoping to do with 'Atlanta' is to really shatter that. To shatter it completely wide open. To go from the furthest lane of absurdity to the furthest lane of reality and make them blend.
