Joshua Henry (Joshua Anthony Charlton Henry) Quotes
I really liked the idea of playing - I won't say the underdog - but characters who have a lot of conflict.
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I try to make myself happy, no, because I know that if I'm not happy, my colleagues are not happy and my shareholders are not happy and my customers are not happy.
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I'm starting to find my own style.
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Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.
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My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education.
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Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so-called samples of opinion are no more accurate or reliable than my grandmother's big toe was when it came to predicting the weather.
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I think most people's careers in theater are based on delusion. It's just that mine started early.
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That is the exciting thing: I don't know what God has given me for tomorrow.
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I was in Paris, Milan and London from '89 until '91, and I did mostly runway modeling. I know there's so many people out there looking for pictures, but this was way before the age of the Internet, sorry!
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I'm a businessman and actor and I still make appearances.
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I learned early on that in the real world, the masks of tragedy and comedy adorn the proscenium of every life.
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My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it.
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I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.
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Free-diving is all about being lean, being super-flexible, and having a good breath hold.
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Muslims are ordinary members of the working public, just like you.
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In prose, you have a lot more room for digression, for very meaty kinds of dialogues. In graphic novels, you're writing haiku-length dialogue. Your job is to be efficient, to get out of the way of the art.
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The minute anyone's getting anxious I say, You must eat and you must sleep. They're the two vital elements for a healthy life.
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My general philosophy of playing bad guys, which I've sort of done, you know, half the time is, you know, very few people who we view as bad guys get out of bed and think, 'What evil, terrible thing am I going to do today?' Most people see their motivations as justified - as, you know, justifying whatever they do.
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I became a better listener than I ever had been as a result of playing Jean Luc Picard because it was one of the things that he does terrifically well.
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Malice delights to blacken the characters of prominent men.
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At the happy ending of the Tempest, Prospero brings the kind back togeter with his son, and finds Miranda's true love and punishes the bad duke and frees Ariel and becomes a duke himself again. Everyone - except Caliban - is happy, and everyone is forgiven, and everyone is fine, and they all sail away on calm seas. Happy endings. That's how it is in Shakespeare. But Shakespeare was wrong. Sometimes there isn't a Prospero to make everything fine again. And sometimes the quality of mercy is strained.
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Americans cannot maintain their essential faith in government if there are two Americas, in which the private sector's work subsidizes the disproportionate benefits of this new public sector elite.
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I really liked the idea of playing - I won't say the underdog - but characters who have a lot of conflict.
