Taraji P. Henson Quotes
I'm always interested in challenging myself and pushing and seeing how far I can go.
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I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.
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I believe in growth - in myself and in the characters I create.
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If I really believe that visual representation and narrative are ways to convey important, complex ideas, and if the world is gravitating toward this form, then geez, I better do it myself. I want to do it myself.
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When I'm on stage, I know exactly where I am. It's not an ego thing or anything like that, but I am more in my body and aware of myself and aware of what I'm doing, and I feel more from that, from sharing the music.
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I'm not on fire for the Lord, so I tried to make myself generate this fire for the Lord.
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When you're a producer and an artist you're very critical of yourself. I like to produce other people, but I'm not that good at producing myself.
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I've got nothing very original to say myself.
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Even if a university should turn out to be another version of a school, I had decided I could lose myself afterwards as an anonymous particle of the London I already loved.
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I second-guess myself all the time. I make a decision and then wonder if I made the wrong choice.
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For a North Korean watcher, seeing 'The Interview' is like seeing an earnest endeavor reflected back through a freak-show mirror.
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I love talking about myself.
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I can do a little bit of comedy. I can be in an in-between place, where I can do a little bit.
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One thing I can say about George... he may not be able to keep a job, but he's not boring.
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I'm guilty of it myself, sort of thinking, 'Classic novels: snoozeville.' But there is a huge amount of wonderful material.
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I don't have any office; I can write everywhere. So, I put a piece of paper on the table, and then I travel. Literally, writing for me is like travelling. It's getting out of myself and living another life - maybe a better life.
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I'm the youngest of four, but my closest sibling is 10 years older. I had a lot of imagination. I was running around playing little games by myself. But I never thought I was going to be an actor.
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My dream as an actor growing up was always to challenge myself to different genres, different roles, and it's actually rare that an actor's given that opportunity to do that.
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I've always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of myself.
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Oil has become the principal wealth in the hands of the great Yankee transnationals; through this energy source, they had an instrument that considerably expanded their political power in the world.
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I was driven completely by a desire to understand how cells worked.
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Stress and looks are directly connected as far as I am concerned. If you are happy, you look good.
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We were hunter-gatherers of information, and we moved from that to becoming farmers and cultivators of information.
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I think when you're dealing with very tenuous scenes and difficult and heavy subject matter, it's important to be close intimately with your cast as friends, and be able to diffuse a lot of that tension and trust each other with the work.
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I'm always interested in challenging myself and pushing and seeing how far I can go.
