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" I've always considered myself to be just average talent and what I have is a ridiculous insane obsessiveness for practice and preparation. "

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" I'm a student of patterns. At heart, I'm a physicist. I look at everything in my life as trying to find the single equation, the theory of everything. "

" Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there. "

" It's quite highly possible that I have peaked. I mean, I just can't imagine what else I could do beyond this. It's really a bittersweet kind of feeling. "

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" I was raised in a Baptist household, went to a Catholic church, lived in a Jewish neighborhood, and had the biggest crush on the Muslim girls from one neighborhood over. "

" So if you stay ready, you ain't gotta get ready, and that is how I run my life. "

" When you create art, the world has to wait. "

" The things that have been most valuable to me I did not learn in school. "

" Whatever your dream is, every extra penny you have needs to be going to that. "

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" And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy's sleeping? I'm working. "

" You can cry, ain't no shame in it. "

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" I'm a student of world religion, so to me, it's hugely important to have knowledge and to understand what people are doing. "

" Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too. "

" I know how to learn anything I want to learn. I absolutely know that I could learn how to fly the space shuttle because someone else knows how to fly it, and they put it in a book. Give me the book, and I do not need somebody to stand up in front of the class. "

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" I love being black in America, and especially being black in Hollywood. "

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" In my mind, I've always been an A-list Hollywood superstar. Y'all just didn't know yet. "

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