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I don’t want to wait for Hollywood to decide that what I do is good.

Russell Simmons

Urban pop culture is its own phenomena that is for some reason is left out of Hollywood. It’s the most mainstream thing there is.
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Culture Hollywood Urban
The greatest tool to eliminate the noise is meditation.
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Meditation Noise Tools
I used to think anxiety and insomnia drove me to success, but it was the stillness that let me be good at anything. When you extend the seconds of stillness, that’s when you’re able to think and learn.
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Anxiety Insomnia Thinking
Black actors on the road, flying around the country working as poets. Those people are inspirations for millions of kids who write.
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Country Inspiration Writing
Culture in America and everywhere else comes from the suffering, from those who don’t want the old ways. They want to bring in the new, whether it’s the ballet, when it started, or Shakespeare.
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Ballet Country People Suffering
Art is a way to express yourself and through that you can escape a bad situation.
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Art Express Way Yourself
I have a pilot called The Re-Education of Oliver Cooper starring the white kid from Project X where follows a black girl to a black university, like in Legally Blonde. I have so many fun projects.
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Cooper Education Fun Girl Kids University
You have to live your life as if you are already where you want to be.
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Development Life Self Want
No matter what we’ve done or where we’ve been, every single one of us can change.
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Change Changing Optimistic People
No matter what you’re doing, try to work at that task like it’s your dream job.
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Dream Jobs Trying
The always-connected culture isn’t as much a contributor as Grace might think. The nervous mind, the monkey mind, will create its own noise. It doesn’t need a new toy.
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Grace Mind Thinking
Embrace struggle… It is your greatest teacher.
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Encouraging Inspirational Life
Your purpose is to act on the resources God gives you. If God gives you a bucket of fish, you have to distribute those fish. If you don’t, they’re going to rot, attract a bunch of flies, and start stinking up your soul.
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Buckets Giving Soul
I couldn’t guarantee that someone could get off their medication. But I suspect that meditation instead of Ritalin would change the life of any kid with ADD.
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Guarantees Kids Meditation
The biggest impediment to get the laws changed was the lobbyists. Whether you’re talking about healthcare, jobs going overseas, or tax reform, you’re always coming up against lobbyists.
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Biggest Changed Lobbyist Overseas
The reason I got a break in Hollywood when I moved here a few years ago is my good buddy, who I was on the beach with when he was a publicist, is now the chairman of HBO.
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Beach Hbo Years

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