Taraji P. Henson Quotes
Every human walks around with a certain kind of sadness. They may not wear it on their sleeves, but it's there if you look deep.
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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.
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I think 'The Color of Money' was very instrumental in opening up other opportunities. People started to recognize me as an artist after that film. And then, after I did 'Bird,' it was more solidified.
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I have an obsession with fashion - it's another form of expression for me - and I have a growing collection of vintage clothes and jewelry. Being able to play dress-up for my career has been a gift.
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If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.
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I was sent the script for 'Silver Linings' when I was doing a play in D.C. at The Kennedy Center with Cate Blanchett and I was sent the script and asked if I was interested, and I said 'Oh, boy am I!'
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I've been living. I've been doing the writing thing. I've been being the family man. I've been traveling the world. I been to, like, 18 cities last year. I've been getting my thoughts together, trying to figure out what's going on with hip-hop itself.
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I went to high school in Los Angeles, and I grew up riding horses, so that was kind of my life. I always wanted to act.
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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.
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The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
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The more energy-efficient we become as a nation, the less we need to develop additional energy sources.
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The job as a coach is difficult.
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The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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I know a lot of people struggle with the idea of Jesus and their idea of God. I think, if you don't even know what you're praying to or who you're praying to, based on what I know to be true, regardless, God's always listening.
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I never, never thought one day I will sing at La Scala or I will get the Grammy. I'm lucky. I work a lot with a teacher, with my coach.
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For your soul's sake, invoke the agent of change called risk, which ensures that things will not be the same tomorrow as they are today. All real change requires risk.
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I never look forward, because I have no idea about how any of it happened to getting here. I've no idea how the next five years are going to be.
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To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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No day-to-day mishaps or indignities can really compromise your sense of self after you've survived a deep tragedy.
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Every human walks around with a certain kind of sadness. They may not wear it on their sleeves, but it's there if you look deep.
