Brian Henson Quotes
Really, initially what I very quickly realized that I was loving about the show was, because it reminded me of when I was a kid and I would visit the sets where my dad was shooting with the other puppeteers.
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I don't blame other people for the rap that Christians have. A lot of Christians are just mental. A lot of Christians are more concerned with telling you where you're gonna go when you die than what you can have while you're here.
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There are different reasons to make movies.
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Geffen was never supportive of the band.
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Hey, the TV was my friend. As a child, I always said, 'I want to live in there someday.'
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Let us not curse the darkness. Let us kindle little lights.
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I'm a huge Wong Kar-Wai fan.
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Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.
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If bigots oppose gay marriage so vehemently, it must be because marriage is a defining institution for them; gays will never be fully accepted until they can marry and adopt, like anyone else.
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I had a couple CDs. But I never had that first concert experience, that first record thing.
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I started running, and I hated it. Of course, everyone hates running for the first mile. If you're running two miles or twenty miles, it always hurts. Now I live it. I look forward to it. It's really good. It clears my head.
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Of, course it always cheers a news editor when a story has what we describe as 'legs' therefore it, erm, runs.
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College professors used to be badly paid and worth it. Colleges used to be modest institutions; they should go back to being modest institutions.
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I was a pretty good imitator of Roy Acuff, but then I found out they already had a Roy Acuff, so I started singin' like myself.
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It's funny landing parts now where I'm somebody's mum. I remember the first time I was asked to play a mum. I was easily old enough, but because I didn't have any children, I thought, 'That seems really grown-up.'
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I fear that I won't work in the theatre again. I'm sad about that. But I won't retire.
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For wide swaths of training and education there are valuable spillovers which mean that the private sector needs support from the government. That is why I have been so determined to protect and grow apprenticeships and put higher education on a sustainable footing.
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It's a rare thing when you read a role and have this immediate ownership over it, you have this take and this connection, and it's not even that you feel that you're gonna do a good job, it's that you feel like you've found it. It fits, it's natural; it's like putting on a good shoe or something.
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I'm predisposed to never be in pure celebration mode.
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My job starts at a quarter to seven in the morning, and you go right through until whatever time is necessary to finish up.
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You need not fear me, for I not only should think it wrong to marry a man that was deficient in sense or in principle, but I should never be tempted to do it; for I could not like him, if he were ever so handsome, and ever so charming, in other respects; I should hate him – despise him – pity him – anything but love him. My affections not only ought to be founded on approbation, but they will and must be so: for, without approving, I cannot love. It is needless to say, I ought to be able to respect and honour the man I marry, as well as love him, for I cannot love him without.
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My mom is a therapist, and my dad has a doctorate in psychology, and growing up, I felt 'very understood.'
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If you hold on to the handle, it's easier to maintain the illusion of control. But it's more fun if you just let the wind carry you.
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Really, initially what I very quickly realized that I was loving about the show was, because it reminded me of when I was a kid and I would visit the sets where my dad was shooting with the other puppeteers.
