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If You Want Somethin', Go Get It. Period.

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Hurry Up And Write Your Number Down Before I Don't Want It No More.

If You Learn How To Defeat That Person When You're Running. You Will Know How To Not Quit When Things Get Hard In Your Life.

Tommy Lee Jones Is Hilarious. I Would Say, If You Look At The Body Of His Work, The Character He Is Most Like Is The One In 'the Fugitive.' That's How He Talks And Jokes. That Is The Type Of Energy He Has.

Sorry, I'm Allergic To Bullshit.

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I Always Thought There Was Some Place I Was Going, That There Was Some Success Or Some Achievement Or Some Box-office Number That Was Going To Fill The Hole. And What I Realize Is That Life Is A Hole. It's A Process Of Continually Trying To Find And Reinvent Myself.

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Collective Unconscious

Why Is Life At This Point In The Twentieth Century So Focused Upon The Very Beginning Of Life And The Very End Of Life? What About The 80 Years We Have To Live Between Those Two Inexorable Bookends?

If Anybody Can Find Someone To Love Them And To Help Them Through This Difficult Thing That We Call Life, I Support That In Any Shape Or Form.

Marriage Equality

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And Where I Excel Is Ridiculous, Sickening, Work Ethic. You Know, While The Other Guy's Sleeping? I'm Working.

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You'd Be Surprised How Much You Don't Understand What Other People See Your Actions As; How Other People View The Things You Say And The Things That You Do. And A Lot Of Times Just Clarifying What Your Intentions Are With People Makes A Huge Difference.

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For Me And My Storytelling And The Way That I Embrace Stories In The Way That I Embrace Characters, I Desperately Needed To Know That Everything Was Okay.

You Be As Truthful As You Can To A Specific Situation, And It Will Become Universal.

I Want The World To Be Better Because I Was Here. I Want My Life, I Want My Work, My Family, I Want It To Mean Something And If You Are Not Making Someone Else's Life Better Then You Are Wasting Your Time.

The Only Man You Will Ever Get Is Some Fool Named Grady Who Falls Asleep In His Soup.

I Love You And I'm Here For You.

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Nba Championships

Listen, Michael Jackson Is Really Funny. To Have Time To Spend With Him And Actually Be Around Him, He's Not What....people Think He Is. Michael Jackson's Like A Black Belt Too, So He Will Kick Your Ass If You Say Something About Him." In Disbelief The Interviewer Replied "no, Really?" To Which Will Said, "yes, Michael Jackson Kicked Over My Head!

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Whatever Your Dream Is, Every Extra Penny You Have Needs To Be Going To That.

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Well, All I Know Is What I Read In The Papers.

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Just As A Person, Just In My Life, The Way I Was Raised, My Grandmother Made It Very Clear That God Will Make A Way.

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Don't Ever Let Someone Tell You That You Can't Do Something. You Got A Dream, You Gotta Protect It. When People Can't Do Something Themselves, They Are Going To Tell You That You Can't Do It. You Want Something, Go Get It. Period.

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