Brian Henson Quotes

But if everybody's trying to stay safe, then you never really create something new and different and surprising.

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• I've always been interested in family secrets and what happens behind closed doors. I find that fascinating and creepy - that's why I read: because I want to know other people's secrets.

  

  Ottessa Moshfegh
  • People
  • Family
  • Why

• You know, the Brits had a way of - running an empire. And I don't think America is comfortable with an empire.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • America
  • Think
  • Know

• Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Man
  • Moral
  • Away

• There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Tired
  • Busy
  • Pursuing

• I can't even imagine life without music!

  

  Manika
  • Life
  • Music
  • Imagine

• It's never crowded along the extra mile.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Never
  • Crowded
  • Mile

• The Clinton, Bush, and Obama administrations all fell victim to chronically relying on Beijing's empty promises with the distant hope that China would finally use its influence to reign in Pyongyang's provocative behavior, to no avail.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Hope
  • Influence
  • Promises

• I don't think I realized the extremes of my proportions until I moved to Paris. I thought I'd be 'normal' as a model, but actually, even in that world, I was at one end of the spectrum.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • World
  • Thought
  • Model

• The kind of audience I'm speaking to is a very wide range of people.

  

  Haley Reinhart
  • People
  • Kind
  • Audience

• I don't get wrapped up in technique and the like.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • Up
  • Like
  • Technique

• My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.

  

  Jack Layton
  • Love
  • Hope
  • For Her

• I had one fight in my adult life. I had the famous '89 fight with Nicole, which she admits that she initiated the physical part.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Life
  • Famous
  • Fight

• As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what will happen if you win or lose.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Win

• Most actors will tell you that it takes a while to figure out what you want to be because we just want to do everything we see on TV and don't know that 'actor' is a job yet.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • Job
  • Want
  • Know

• To you, W. B. Yeats, good praiser, wholesome dispraiser, heavy-handed judge, open-handed helper of us all, I offer a play of my plays for every night of the week, because you like them, and because you have taught me my trade.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Good
  • Night
  • Judge

• If you care about the news and write what you want to read - not just what you think Google search wants to read - there are people out there who want to read it.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • People
  • Care
  • Search

• It was kind of scary because working with Woody Allen becomes sort of a big deal in your mind. He directs in that Woody Allen character some of the time - he has these idiosyncrasies that are really charming and funny.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Character

• In the battle between the sexes, men and women will go practically to the end of the earth in illogical, irrational ways to give each other pain.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Men
  • Women
  • Earth

• When we were making 'Toy Story,' my grandmother was very ill, and she knew she was not going to make it. I went back to visit her, and there was a moment during that visit that I had to say goodbye, and I knew I'd never be seeing her again. I looked at her and knew that I was looking at her for the last time.

  

  Lee Unkrich
  • Time
  • She
  • Grandmother

• Oftentimes, the funniest comedians are people who've gone through personal torment.

  

  Cole Sprouse
  • People

• This decree is very serious and we will not allow it to pass unopposed. (on Israel offers 10-month West Bank settlement freeze)

  

  Uri Orbach
  • Serious
  • Israel
  • Months

• 'Outsiders,' I guess, is sort of dark, but I don't really think of it as dark. The world up there on that mountain, it had the potential to have a lot of fun as well as a lot of drama, these guys raiding the town in their ATVs with their tattoos. It seemed like something different.

  

  David Morse
  • Up
  • World
  • Different

• But if everybody's trying to stay safe, then you never really create something new and different and surprising.

  

  Brian Henson
  • Different
  • Create
  • Surprising