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You've got to run your career. What happens is a lot of times artists have this talent and they're just looking for somebody to take it and do something with it. And you have to be the creative force.

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Will Smith
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: September 25
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Willard Carroll Smith Jr.
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Life is...the moments that take your breath away.
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Before 2010, I had a vision. I saw a family in my mind that I wanted to have. And I was pushing and driving hard for my picture, and then I realized everyone has their own journey. I have to support what they want to do. I have to support the vision that they have for themselves, not my vision. That was excruciating for me.
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The only man you will ever get is some fool named Grady who falls asleep in his soup.
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The person that works the hardest wins.
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Smiling is the best way to face every problem, to crush every fear, to hide every pain.
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I'm used to people clapping at the end of the movie.
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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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Don't let failure go to your heart, and don't let success go to your head.
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Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn now and again.
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I refuse to accept anything less than 100% of what I can achieve.
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I'm motivated by fear...a fear of fear. I hate being afraid to do something.
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Here I stand before you - brown. Color of the mountains Colossal as the earth Wrapped so deliciously within my own joy and misery Feathers of my wings paralyzed by the distance of my mind Here I stand before you, the color of the night Frozen by the potential of me.
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