Brian Tyree Henry Quotes

I'm a big guy: I look like a linebacker, you know? But no one cares, really, that I'm educated. I have a copy of 'Fire Next Time' by James Baldwin in my bag. I have an Ibsen play in there, too. I have to walk through this world with that duality all the time, that I live in two different worlds.

Brian Tyree Henry

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 31, 1981

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Dirty martinis and music - that's the big motto in our family. We get the booze going, and the music starts playing. Always old-school hip-hop. Jay-Z. Tribe Called Quest. The Pharcyde. My parents love that stuff.

Matt Harvey

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Until Systers came into existence, the notion of a global 'community of women in computer science' did not exist.

Anita Borg

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Making recess appointments when the Senate isn't in recess is neither rational nor moderate. It's a raw misuse of executive power by a president whose love of government is his most vulnerable spot with the electorate.

John Podhoretz

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Pakistan is both an ally in the war on terror, and in some sense, a battleground of the war on terror.

Stephen Hadley

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I find in music there's a space and a language I can use to express things in ways I can't describe conversationally.

Sufjan Stevens

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That would really be my fantasy - maybe just do three shows a year and each year in a different city, just singing for the people who really want to see it, and then just write for other people. I do love to sing, but I'm just as happy singing in the bathtub, you know?

Sia

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As somebody who visits countless schools, I see firsthand the dire situation our educational system faces.

Jarrett J. Krosoczka

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Film is always a fight because you're the person, as the director, with a clear picture in your head of what you think is really exciting, and you're just trying to convince a bunch of other people to buy into that.

David Slade

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There has to be some decorum left in politics and in American journalism as well. Our husbands are the candidates.

Cindy McCain

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French photography was basically poetic, and mine was vulgar and brash and violent, except that there's never any violence in the photographs: it's only in the photographic style.

William Klein

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Seeing our kids' beautiful, colorful art hung on the wall brightens my heart and our home.

Tiffani Thiessen

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You must be active; you must be positive, even if things don't go the way you want them to.

Norman Lloyd

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