Brian Tyree Henry Quotes

'Atlanta' is really trying to put that out there: these are just the lives of these people in this city, and this city is its own breathing, living thing, too. So how do you navigate through life, especially with dreams and aspirations in a world that tells you that you don't deserve to have them.

Brian Tyree Henry

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeDreamsPeopleCityWorldYou

I don't trust anybody that doesn't do good work. I don't give them any credibility. If they can't write, why should I believe anything they have to say?

Jim Harrison

WorkGoodTrustGood WorkBelieve

You don't live on the Earth you want, you live on the Earth you have.

Jeff Rich

LiveYouEarthWant

I need, absolutely, to be alone.

Jeanne Moreau

AloneNeedAbsolutely

Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

Jean Paul

BeautyGreatFruitPartyFoolsMood

My lyrics are quite train of thought, and they are all over the place, but they evoke something.

St. Lucia

ThoughtTrainPlaceOverSomething

No one else in our family was a professional musician so this took an enormous leap of faith on their part.

Tony Visconti

FamilyFaithProfessionalLeapOur

I'm not the average artist.

DMX

ArtistAverage

Police officers, firefighters, EMTs - they are all out there every single day - literally just a phone call away for anyone who needs them.

Doreen Cronin

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Many roads lead to the path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.

Bodhidharma

PathRoadsPracticeTwoReasonLead

There was this real fear in doing 'Square Pegs' after getting such a fast ride to glory on 'Saturday Night Live'. I was afraid that the word would be 'peaks early, fails to live up to promise.'

Anne Beatts

FearLiveRideNightSaturdayDoing

Everybody is an expert on one thing - that's what I learned in my high school journalism class - and that's, of course, his own life. And everybody deserves to live and have his story told. And if it doesn't seem like an interesting story, then that's the failure of the listener, or the journalist who retells it badly.

William T. Vollmann

LifeFailureLiveSchoolHigh School

We fitted, amusingly enough, into none of the form categories of 'The Young American Couple'... security to us is in ourselves, and no job, not even money, can give us what we have to develop: faith in our work and hard, hard work, which is Spartan in many ways.

Sylvia Plath

WorkHard WorkFaithMoneyJobHard

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