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Our Whole Dream For Our Home Was For It To Be An Artist's Haven. So There Are Paint Supplies; There's A Piano With A Microphone And A Recorder Right There To Capture Things Right In The Second. There's Editing Equipment. There Are Cameras. I Think The Only Thing In Our House That People Would Be Surprised By Is The Efficiency.

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Our Whole Dream For Our Home Was For It To Be An Artist's Haven. So There Are Paint Supplies; There's A Piano With A Microphone And A Recorder Right There To Capture Things Right In The Second. There's Editing Equipment. There Are Cameras. I Think The Only Thing In Our House That People Would Be Surprised By Is The Efficiency.

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There's No Easy Way Around It, No Matter How Talented You Are ... Your Talent Is Going To Fail You If You're Not Skilled. If You Don't Study, If You Don't Work Really Hard And Dedicate Yourself To Being Better Every Single Day, You 'll Never Be Able To Communicate With People Your Artistry The Way That You Want!

I'm Starting To Be A Lot More Comfortable With Allowing People To Decide For Themselves And Almost Creating A Situation That Forces People To Decide For Themselves Whether They Like It Or Don't Like It Or Agree With The Character Or Disagree With The Character.

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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 You're Absent During My Struggle, Don't Expect To Be Present During My Success.

Bouncing In The Club Where The Heat Is On, All Night On The Beach Till The Break Of Dawn

You Can Cry, Ain't No Shame In It.

I Know Who I Am, I Know What I Believe, That's All I Need To Know. From There, You Do What You Need To Do.

I've Always Been A Jokester. The Things I Got In Trouble For, When I Was Little, Was Always About Making A Joke Or Setting Up A Prank Or Being Silly When I Should Be Paying Attention.

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There’s A Redemptive Power That Making A Choice Has Rather Than Feeling Like You’re An Effect To All The Things That Are Happening. Make A Choice. Just Decide What It’s Gonna Be, Who You’re Gonna Be, How You Are Going To Do It. Just Decide. And From That Point, The Universe Will Get Out Of Your Way.

I Want To Represent Possibilities.

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Road To Success

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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The Central Idea Of Love Is Not Even A Relationship Commitment, The First Thing Is A Personal Commitment To Be The Best Version Of Yourself With Or Without That Person That You're With. You Have To Every Single Day-mind, Body, And Spirit-wake Up With A Commitment To Be Better.

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A Human Being Having A Full Emotional Conversation With A Dog Is Funny, Innately. It's One Of Those Things Where You Get In A Scene And You Always Go For What Is The Best Joke, And A Talking Dog For Some Reason, Whatever He Says, Is Hilarious." (about His Role Wiht A Talking Dog In The Forthcoming Men In Black Sequel.

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I Keep Going Because I Doubt Myself. It Drives Me To Be Better. I've Learned That The Mastery Of Self-doubt Is The Key To Success. It's Like Being Animated By The Love Of A Woman - The Need To Be Worthy Of Her.

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.

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.

I've Always Been Attracted To Characters With Insurmountable Odds And Obstacles, Because Innately, However Inarticulately I've Always Believed That My Dreams And My Desires Can Command And Bend Time And Space To Be The Things That I Want Them To Be.

There's So Much Negative Imagery Of Black Fatherhood. I've Got Tons Of Friends That Are Doing The Right Thing By Their Kids, And Doing The Right Thing As A Father - And How Come That's Not As Newsworthy?

Human Beings Are Not Creatures Of Logic; We Are Creatures Of Emotion. And We Do Not Care What's True. We Care How It Feels.

I Work From Almost A Dangerous Place In My Mind Sometimes.

I Have Fun. I Enjoy My Life. And I Was Hardwired For A Deep Connection Between Service, God, And Happiness. You Kind Of Need All Of Those Things To Be In Play For One To Have The Others.

A Sad Thing In Life Is That Sometimes You Meet Someone Who Means A Lot To You, Only To Find Out In The End It Was Never Bound To Be, And You Just Have To Let Go.

You Can't Break Poor People Mentality. Once You Grow Up Poor, You Don't Take Anything For Granted. It Can Have The Negative Side Also Because You Can Never Truly Be Relaxed.

Everybody Need A Partner To Stand Right By Their Side. Not Only Down For The Good Times. But Also Down Through The Bad Times.

If You're Not Making Someone Else's Life Better, Then You're Wasting Your Time. Your Life Will Become Better By Making Other Lives Better.

Wasting Your Time

Just Stay Ready. Stay In Shape And Then You Don't Have To Rush To Train Before The Movie Starts. I'll Show You My Abs Later Because I’m In Shape. But That Idea, If You Stay Ready, You Don’t Have To Get Ready.

Never Underestimate The Pain Of A Person, Because In All Honesty, Everyone Is Struggling. Some People Are Better At Hiding It Than Others.

The Value Of A Story Isn't That It Just Has A Narcotic Effect. It's That It Awakens Something In You That Makes You Want To Think, That Makes You Talk To Other People, That Stirs Something That Makes You Examine The Story That Eventually Turns Into Self-examination.

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?

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