Taraji P. Henson Quotes
With TV, the pace is so fast, the scripts are coming at you, the directors are firing things at you, it's breathtaking.
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During one or two summers, as well as part-time during the school year, I worked for a small Canadian company which developed electrical instruments for military planes.
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I burp, I fart. I'm a real woman.
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Reading allows me to recharge my batteries.
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I find being funny very hard work. I am always asked about it, and I feel guilty saying that, but it's the truth. I love my work, but it ain't easy.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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If I had to study and work hard, it would have to have the reward of a lot of cash.
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I don't think I am evangelical in my work.
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I luckily had a very charming, lovable mom who I think everybody could see bits and pieces of their mom in.
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When people arrive at El Bulli, everybody goes through the kitchen. It's a way of making them feel at home. When they leave, the only thing I ask is whether they've been happy. Everything in between, I don't particularly care.
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The most profound change that genetics brings about might not be scientific at all. It might be mental and even spiritual enrichment: a more expansive sense of who we humans are, existentially, and where we came from, and how we fit with other life on earth.
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You can only be free as an artist if you're free as a person.
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I'm drawn to villains that are three-dimensional and raw and that I can kind of see in my own life.
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After Hurricane Katrina, over New Orleans, my helicopter crashed and the pilot and I were only saved because we fell on the roof of a flooded house that absorbed the shock. When the helicopter was spiraling downward out of control, I didn't expect to survive at all.
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Our vision and commitment is towards the country's progress, its place in the world and the happiness of its people.
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He told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White House.
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Our fresh technical resources have furthered the disintegration of solid masses of masonry into slender piers, with consequent far-reaching economies in bulk, space, weight, and haulage.
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Cows are gentle, interesting animals.
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I'm lucky. Usually you're dead to get your own museum, but I'm still alive to see mine.
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In 1975 I decided that there was no future in flying (airline jobs were impossible to get, and who wants a job where you are judged only by seniority?) and headed off to grad school.
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Our culture is at its best when we protect and encourage the weakest. Every life - at every stage, in every place - has a dignity beyond our imagining.
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All business is capitalistic. You require capital for any sort of business endeavour.
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I've got my ideal job. I like to sing, I like to dance, I like to bang drums and dress up, and someone pays me - it's incredible.
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With TV, the pace is so fast, the scripts are coming at you, the directors are firing things at you, it's breathtaking.
