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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My advice to anybody, including myself, is if you're going through a bad period, and you just can't see the world's on your shoulders and no day is a good day, you're missing the whole point of the experience. And that's something dogs know from the moment they come bounding up to you as a puppy.
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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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I love this country very much, and I'm proud to live here, but I think our current administration is extreme. These are not merely conservative people, these are extreme right-wing people.
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That's what's so great about television. You're able to tell this long story, where you couldn't really do that in a film because you have to tell a story in an hour and a half or two hours.
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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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I have turned down so many endorsements. My phone never stops ringing.
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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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There are artists who think they have to be on top all the time. I think that would be exhausting.
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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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I missed a lot of school for auditions, but other than that I had a very normal childhood.
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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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Courage? The moment when my troubles are going to end is not the moment when my courage is going to fail me.
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My mother says I was vaccinated with a phonograph needle. I love to talk. I just love to talk.
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My friends and my family are such a massive part of my life. My kids are everything.
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It's weird how your perspective changes. At the start of your career, you think, 'I just want to do cutting-edge work that makes people think.' Now, I would do a blockbuster in a heartbeat.
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We're on some path that's set since we're born, but I still believe we can change some things. So I believe in my faith, but I still don't believe in my fate.
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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.
