Taraji P. Henson Quotes
I love the art of acting, so I don't care if I'm in a movie with 10 people, two people, or by myself. I just really enjoy it.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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When I was 26, I got offered the Connecticut job, but the ABA started, and I thought I could still play.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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I'm crazy about jewelry; swimwear and jewelry.
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The first test any poem must pass is no longer, 'Is it true to nature?' but a criterion looking in a different direction: namely, 'Is it sincere? Is it genuine?'
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I have an enormous metabolism, so I'm lucky.
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I remember starting out and covering songs.
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I am not a prisoner of conscious, but people try to make me one sometimes. It is both a gift and a curse. It's a high honour but can create limitations - I have to be fluid.
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I'm lucky enough to do what I like for work - not everyone's that fortunate.
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All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo.
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I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'
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When we do an investment, we always ask, 'Can we affect the outcome? When buying a company, can we have an impact?' That's a different style of investing than a passive investor in the stock market. To me, that's how you're taking the risk out of it. You know what your capability is and how you can enhance value.
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My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.
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When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
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Glamour is about feeling good in your own skin.
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I don't have a great eye for detail. I leave blanks in all of my stories. I leave out all detail, which leaves the reader to fill in something better.
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I don't think I would have been a writer if I hadn't been a mother. I wanted to construct something that contained some of these feelings that I had, some of these discoveries or revelations.
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I was working in restaurants as a captain and as a waiter.
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What really matters is what's on the inside.
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If you are really into waiting, try holding your breath for Jesus, 'cause I hear the payoff may be that much greater.
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I love the art of acting, so I don't care if I'm in a movie with 10 people, two people, or by myself. I just really enjoy it.
