You're assisting the audience to understand; you're giving them a bridge or an access. And if you don't give them that, if you keep it more abstract, it's almost more pure. It's a cooler thing.


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TARAJI P. HENSON
I don't think a living being should suffer for the sake of fashion, period. End of story. You do...
TARAJI P. HENSON
I'm a creative person, so I have to stay busy.
TARAJI P. HENSON
I'm always interested in challenging myself and pushing and seeing how far I can go.
TARAJI P. HENSON
It's up to you to be responsible for how you feel if you're not happy. Your happiness lies i...
TARAJI P. HENSON
A woman is gentle, soft, delicate, and a man's position is to protect her, help her up stairs, m...
TARAJI P. HENSON
At the end of the day, I stand by who I am. I'm a good person.
TARAJI P. HENSON
Love is the greatest gift that God has given us. It's free.
TARAJI P. HENSON
I don't ever want to get boxed in, playing the same characters, over and over again. That's ...
TARAJI P. HENSON
Once you're a mom, always a mom. It's like riding a bike, you never forget.
TARAJI P. HENSON
I'm a character actor.
TARAJI P. HENSON
I like to disappear in my roles because I don't have an assistant.
TARAJI P. HENSON
Oftentimes, when you have a huge studio film and you have big names attached, they like to keep atta...
TARAJI P. HENSON
I would love to play a superhero. I wish I could be in 'The Avengers,' kicking butt.
TARAJI P. HENSON
Every human walks around with a certain kind of sadness. They may not wear it on their sleeves, but ...
TARAJI P. HENSON
When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.
JIM MORRISON
Make measurable progress in reasonable time.
JIM ROHN
Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.
JIM MORRISON
I was in and out of comas until I was nine and I would lose entire days and weeks. The novelty of be...
JIM DAVIS
I stop short of being a workaholic.
JIM DAVIS
When you're through with your cat, you can't throw it in the trash.
JIM DAVIS
I didn't have a whole lot of success getting dates, I was always a bit of a geek.
JIM DAVIS
I can go everywhere and no one recognises me.
JIM DAVIS
I was very happy and honored to create the Professor Garfield Foundation with Ball State to make rea...
JIM DAVIS
Usually I commit to something in my head and then I start drawing.
JIM DAVIS
I probably get more inspiration for human stories and idiosyncrasies than I do animal stories.
JIM DAVIS
My dream in life is to write the one gag that makes everyone in the world laugh.
JIM DAVIS
I thought if I could create a convincing cat I could say and do anything I wanted on the human condi...
JIM DAVIS
Readers have told me that their children have learned to read after years of struggle after starting...
JIM DAVIS
You have to do something when you're lying in bed. So you play with your mind.
JIM DAVIS
The understatement is the English contribution to comedy.
JIM DAVIS
Avoid fruits and nuts. You are what you eat.
JIM DAVIS
There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessari...
JIM DAVIS
Cats are anthropomorphised in art because they are so laid back that you automatically attribute hum...
JIM DAVIS
You'd have to go a long way to find someone who was more proud and grateful for what our veteran...
JIM DAVIS
Good morning is a contradiction of terms.
JIM DAVIS
Cats rule the world.
JIM DAVIS
As we celebrate President Reagan's remarkable career and historic legacy, we also celebrate a ma...
JIM RAMSTAD
I wanted to make an Indian character who wasn't either a) the savage that must be eliminated, th...
JIM JARMUSCH
Where's your will to be weird?
JIM MORRISON
Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.
JIM ROHN
Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.
JIM MORRISON
Blake said that the body was the soul's prison unless the five senses are fully developed and op...
JIM MORRISON