Taraji P. Henson Quotes
A lot of times characters are combinations of people I come across in life. I people-watch a lot.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
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I never been a hater of these other cats, who never really had nothing, being successful. That's not my problem.
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It's a good thing I don't read everything Eddie says, or I'd be up in arms and not enjoying my life.
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I never thought of Kim Basinger in terms of age. For me she embodies woman with her subtleties and intricacies. She's sensual and intellectually engaging, elegant with a very strong personal style.
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I've been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story.
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I think I would like to have lived in the 1930s and worn beautiful bias cut dresses all the time.
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Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the city.
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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I'm happy. I give thanks every morning that I can get up, that I still have my husband with me. I'm extremely grateful. After all, how many 93-year-old cover girls do you know?
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As cliched as it sounds, I'm taking every day as it comes.
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Bleaching eyebrows makes me crazy.
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I am not ever in the business of making anyone feel bad.
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English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
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The weakness in traditional Scottish nationalism lay in its own inability to grasp that identity could not be the only factor in the march to independence.
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Nobody can write better jokes putting me down than me.
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Played tennis for years. But you can't improve at tennis after you're 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly you're a doubles player.
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I'm actually not on Twitter.
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Memoir is a difficult literary form to pull off when dealing with discrete and poignant moments in a life, even harder when seeking to narrate over 80 years of existence.
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My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.
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I'd probably play games obsessively if I didn't write, although I admit I don't read novels partly because I don't enjoy it, not just because it's the wrong side of the creator-consumer barrier for me. I'm a visual writer. I think in moving 3D images and write down what I observe.
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More than 100 people have been sent to death row who were later exonerated because they weren't guilty or fairly tried. Most criminal defendants do not get adequate representation because there are not enough public defenders to represent them. There is a lot that is wrong.
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I met one child there eleven years old, speaking three languages [in Guinea]. He could speak English, French and Malinke. Speaking my language actually better than I could. And this hypocrisy - they tell us here in America [ that black people can't be intelligent].
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A lot of times characters are combinations of people I come across in life. I people-watch a lot.
