“I think that’s a responsibility that I have, to push possibilities, to show people: “This is the level that things could be at.””
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“We gonna touch the sky.”
“Consider in Washington, around the country today we are talking about balanced budgets, paying down our national debt, getting the economy going, defending ourselves, activist judges. Newt Gingrich did all those things when he was speaker. We got tax relief. We got balanced budgets. We got, you know, job creation. We paid down our national debt.”
“Often, you have to fail as a writer before you write that bestselling novel or ground-breaking memoir. If you're failing as a writer - which it definitely feels like when you're struggling to write regularly or can't seem to earn a living as a freelance writer - maybe you need to take a long-term perspective.”
“I needed to put something together that would continually get me up at 4:30 in the morning, get me to work and get me excited to throw on those costumes - which clearly continue to excite me, if you are a viewer of the show - and circumstances that continue to surprise me and ask me to go places acting-wise that I haven't explored before.”
“I'm very competitive but in a very nice way”
“In order to succeed, you can't be afraid to fail. Just do it and don't let anybody tell you you can't.”
“The young people have a phrase for this now, which is "slay in your lane." That's a very important principle of writing. You have to work out what it is you can't do, obscure it, and focus on what works.”
“Life shouldn't be about sitting around staring at frosted glass. Life should be lived and that's all there is to it.”
“With all humility, I think, "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might." Infinitely more important than the vain attempt to love one's neighbor as one's self. If you want to hit a bird on the wing you must have all your will in focus, you must not be thinking about yourself, and equally, you must not be thinking about your neighbor; you must be living with your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing.”
“Now I'm doing a film festival for kids and writing a script about a kidnapped journalist in Afghanistan.”
“I think there was no other profession for me. I was either going into an insane asylum or to be an actor.”
“To see farther, you must climb higher.”
“I want to be able to say that a rap career could be ten albums.”
“Success is like a ladder and no one has ever climbed a ladder with their hands in their pockets.”
“Setting goals helps bring your future into your present and the present is the only time we can take action.”
“If you don't like the way you are, don't worry about it. You can change the way you are.”
“You cannot go higher than you think you can.”
“When you have passion for something you find a way to make it happen - this is the panacea to success.”
“Don't wait until you feel like taking positive action. Take the action and then you will feel like doing it.”