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For me, the greater purpose of the story is just to illuminate some pattern of human truth.

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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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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.
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Talent you have naturally. Skill is only developed by hours and hours and hours of beating on your craft.
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To me, it's science fiction for me to do the things I've been blessed to do in this industry.
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Money and success don't change people they merely amplify what is already there.
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As a child, I watched 'Dallas' and that was my vision for my life for as long as I could remember.
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I always thought there was some place I was going, that there was some success or some achievement or some box-office number that was going to fill the hole. And what I realize is that life is a hole. It's a process of continually trying to find and reinvent myself.
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If we each get on a treadmill right now, one of two things is going to happen... either you're going to get off first or I am going to die. Period.
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I want the world to be better because I was here. I want my life, I want my work, my family, I want it to mean something and if you are not making someone else's life better then you are wasting your time.
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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've never really viewed myself as particularly talented. I've viewed myself as slightly above average in talent.
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It's been rough for me trying to find my position in the struggle and where my voice is needed and helpful. You know, I grew up in Philadelphia, and Philadelphia has a really rough police-brutality history. I grew up in a neighborhood where it was very clear that the police were them and we were us.
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