Brian Henson Quotes
I always very much enjoyed arts and it was so central in my family, my mother was also an art teacher, as well as founding the Henson Company with my dad, there was a lot of art going on in our household.
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Properties have different characteristics, like companies, and the market throws up more opportunities because it is inefficient.
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People think that if you have a huge appetite, then you'll be better at it. But actually, it's how you confront the food that is brought to you. You have to be mentally and psychologically prepared.
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'The Fight Club' DVD is great. I like anything that has really good extras because as an actor, it's really great to see the behind-the-scenes stuff and see how different actors approach their particular project.
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Being Somali, being Muslim, it's always something I've been very proud of.
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I don't mind playing spoiler.
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I do not like being famous. I like being normal.
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Of course, mankind has made giant steps forward. However, what we know is really very, very little compared to what we still have to know.
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One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
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The opening lines of a book are so important. You really need to somehow charm your reader. If you can't get her attention in the first pages, you may have lost her. There has to be an ambience.
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I met Donald Barthelme when I was 30, and it's fair to say that before that moment, I was pre-modern, and after I met him, I was nudged rather forcefully towards this other end of the spectrum.
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My opinion, young people go to the Internet. To the Internet distribution system right now, you put it up there and it's accessed by the world.
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I love men's wear.
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It's very rare you get a great script just handed to you, or sent to you, by someone you don't know.
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Morality must relate, at some level, to the well-being of conscious creatures. If there are more and less effective ways for us to seek happiness and to avoid misery in this world - and there clearly are - then there are right and wrong answers to questions of morality.
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Scrawling 'I'm gay' in lipstick on your parents' bedroom mirror may demonstrate a personal signature of the highest style, but is not particularly sensitive to their feelings. Upon hearing me utter those words almost twenty years ago, my own mother did what and self-respecting middle-class mom would do: went directly into a seizure.
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There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.
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Texas is a great place to be rich and a terrible place to be poor. It's got the highest percentage of people without health insurance in the country. If you get injured on the job, good luck getting workers' comp. And God help you if you're poor and mentally ill.
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I try to make my mood uplifting and peaceful, then watch the world around me reflect that mood.
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But all that being said about modulation, if you're serving people delicious food, they won't complain.
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While people are quick to praise the wisdom of the crowd, being an old-school journalist, I look at the wisdom of the crowd and know it can quickly turn into a mob mentality.
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Snoop Dog is the Phil Jackson of youth football coaches. He ain't going to accept nothing but a winner.
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(On being censored): 'I didn’t go up and say the Pope’s a faggot!....Which is what he is, but I didn’t say that!'
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I've seen my own kids go through their own ups and downs, and as a mother, you want to make it better.
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I always very much enjoyed arts and it was so central in my family, my mother was also an art teacher, as well as founding the Henson Company with my dad, there was a lot of art going on in our household.
