Brian Henson Quotes
People would say to him, "When you finish a movie, did it come out as good as you thought it was going to?" Or, "Did it come out the way you intended it to come out?"
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Our parents all experimented with raising us in a fairly loose, unorthodox way. A huge emphasis was placed on creativity, and our artistic efforts were never dismissed as childish. There was a sense that we - kids and grown-ups - all had the potential to make something of value. Our drawings were not simply destined for the refrigerator.
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Belgian chocolate is my weakness. I like over 72 percent cacao, which shows you how much of a dark chocolate snob I am.
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Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end.
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Warhol's images made sense to me, although I knew nothing at the time of his background in commercial art. To be honest, I didn't think about him a hell of a lot.
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An unlimited America was the vision for the nation set forth by our Founding Fathers. It is the vision enshrined in those two great charters of freedom: our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution. Many of America's most intractable problems stem from the fact that we have strayed from that vision - and lost direction.
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I started making music for fun, but I had two parents who were very much in the business. I didn't run around trying to get the spotlight. I was very shy. I never sang in front of people 'til I was about 17 years old.
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I actually started playing in little cafes around New York, and I have a lot of good friends of mine who are musicians who are struggling in New York.
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Boys wear their hearts on their sleeves. Even when they're trying to pull one over on you they're so transparent. Like men.
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Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.
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When you're a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls - you want to get the most girls. You don't know anything about respect; you don't know anything about being faithful and loyal to your girlfriend.
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You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.
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I suppose I am one of those lucky people who eats what they like and doesn't gain too much weight.
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Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it.
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Having grown up on a family farm, I am all too familiar with the effects a drought can have on a crop.
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I may even show up behind the camera. I love to put things together; I love to give direction. I have a great eye for pace.
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In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.
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Whether we're Democrats or Republicans or independents, we have to learn to hang together or we're gonna hang separately.
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I think art is more glorious than life but not more real.
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There is no such thing as a free lunch.
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If it hadn't been for the Cold War, neither Russia nor America would have been sending people into space.
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Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising.
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We owe the government taxes. We owe our creditors interest. What do these powers owe us?
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I enjoy going to work and having a good time. It's tough when you got to work with people who just are in a bad mood all the damn time.
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People would say to him, "When you finish a movie, did it come out as good as you thought it was going to?" Or, "Did it come out the way you intended it to come out?"
