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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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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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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People always want me to talk about Wonder Woman, so I do.
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Verily there is nothing in all Europe so beautiful as Valldemosa.
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In Italian there is an expression: We don't sleep on the fame.
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These girls come; they last one season; they're completely used up and dried out and sent back home. That's not how to make a life. I want a girl to come in knowing full well what she's getting into and being able to deal and make decisions that will create a career.
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Wisdom is known only by contrasting it with folly; by shadow only we perceive that all visible objects are not flat. Yet Philanthropos would abolish evil!
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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.
