Taraji P. Henson Quotes
Oftentimes, when you have a huge studio film and you have big names attached, they like to keep attaching big names.
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Remember who you are and where you come from; otherwise, you don't know where you are going.
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When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.
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I like to prove people wrong.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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I haven't got a waist. I've just got a sort of place, a bit like an unmarked level crossing.
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When you are dining with a demon, you got to have a long spoon.
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You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.
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Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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I would like to write a movie and, if it wasn't too crazy, also direct.
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If you represent everyone, in some ways you represent no one. You're un-owned.
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You can't get emotional about your work.
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My arm bones looked like chicken bones.
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How you leave the reader is so important - not the climax; I call it the 'exit feeling'.
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Unless you're a salesman, or a bad guest on a talk show, you don't call someone by his name that often.
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I like music a lot.
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It's not enough to attend church and pray every Sunday; you have to act.
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Every time you make a guess of what a judge is going to do... you're wrong, so I try to stay away from that.
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I've fixed the toilet. And I've been crawling in claustrophobic places... you have to deal with that when you become a homeowner.
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I've never heard an agency say, 'Unless you industrialize I will not support you'.
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I was always very aware of the nature of the place where I was growing up in Gulfport, Mississippi, how that place was shaping my experience of the world. I had to go to the Northeast for graduate school because I felt like I had to get far away from my South, be outside it, to understand it.
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I credit my mom with inspiring in me a love of design, matched by her creative problem-solving abilities. This is a woman who could find an old, discarded piece of furniture, bring it home and turn it into something fabulous.
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Unfortunately, a lot of economists wanted to make their subject a science. So the more what you do resembles physics or chemistry, the more credible you become.
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Oftentimes, when you have a huge studio film and you have big names attached, they like to keep attaching big names.
