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I Try To Connect To Human Emotion. I'm Always Looking For Something Primal, Something Really Base That Is Beyond Language, That People Understand Beyond Language.

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I Try To Connect To Human Emotion. I'm Always Looking For Something Primal, Something Really Base That Is Beyond Language, That People Understand Beyond Language.

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Reading... There Have Been Millions And Billions And Billions And Gazillions Of People That Have Lived Before All Of Us. There's No New Problem You Could Have - With Your Parents, With School, With A Bully, With Anything. There's No Problem You Can Have That Someone Hasn't Already Solved And Wrote About It In A Book.

I Just Think That The Gifts That God Has Given Me And The Attention That I Have, I Just Don't Feel Like Acting Is The Limit Of It. I Just Feel Like There's So Much More That I Could Do...and, You Know, Every Day I Wake Up And I Try To Do A Little More And I Just Want The World To Be Different And Better Because I Was Here.

I Consider Myself An Alchemist. An Alchemist Is Basically A Mystical Chemist, Right? And One Of The Great Feats That Alchemists Used To Do Is They Would Take Lead - Just Take A Chunk Of Lead - And They Could Turn Lead Into Gold.

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Sorry, I'm Allergic To Bullshit.

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I Try To Speak My Points Of View About Black America, And How I Feel About Black Men And The Role That Black Men Should Play In Their Lives With Their Children And In Their Lives With Their Women.

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My Skin Is Hard When It Comes To My Music. But With My Movies, I'm Still A Virgin In A Lot Of Ways. I'm Not Used To Being Shot Down For No Reason.

I Look At Bill Clinton, The Way I Look At Bill Gates. As Long As My Microsoft Stock Is Going Up, I Don't Care What Bill Gates Does In The Privacy Of His Own Home.

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If The World Attacks And You Slide Off Track, Remember One Fact, I Got Your Back.

Your Life Will Become Better By Making Other Lives Better.

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Personality Types

Probably Means There's A Good Chance. Possibly Means We Might Or We Might Not.

I Love Producing. I Am Loving Doing That. I Think That Is My Most Natural Space In The Business. I Just Love Producing Or Editing And That's Where I Thrive.

Talent You Have Naturally. Skill Is Only Developed By Hours And Hours And Hours Of Beating On Your Craft.

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.

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Correct Me If I'm Wrong, But Isn't Driving Around On A Bus And Having A Campfire Kind Of Adding To The Environment Problem?

Anything Can Go Away. There's No Such Thing As Safety And Security. You Can Do Things That Give You The Illusion Of Safety And Security, But There's Really No Such Thing.

I've Always Been The Goofy Kid. Growing Up, I Always Enjoyed The Comedic Aspect Of Relating To Women. Even On Camera, It Was Always The Funny Take On It.

The Thing I Wanted To Focus On First Was That I Wanted To Graduate, And (with Me) Coming Back, I Knew That I Wanted Another National Championship. Another National Championship Is Everyone's Main Goal, But We Have To Take It One Game At A Time. We Can't Get Ahead Of Ourselves. We've Got Washington First, Then We'll See What Happens.

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