What I'm aiming to do within hip-hop is to point out that the music itself is powerful; it reaches so many people.
I've achieved a certain amount of success and now I'm thinking about the good things I can do.
As an entrepreneur, you can always find a solution if you try hard enough.
Entrepreneurs: The only people who work 80 hour weeks to avoid working 40 hour weeks.
Entrepreneurs are willing to work 80 hours a week to avoid working 40 hours a week.
Your success will have everything to do with how you perceive yourself, because how you perceive yourself is how others will perceive you, too.
Dear optimist, pessimist, and realist--while you guys were busy arguing about the glass of wine, I drank it! Sincerely, the opportunist!
when pain has been intertwined with love and closeness, it's very difficult to believe that love and closeness can be experienced without pain.
It is hard enough to make a plan for how you are going to spend an evening with somebody else. So to make a plan for how you are going to behave in 25 years seems based on a view of life that is incomprehensible to me.
Somehow forgiveness, with love and tolerance, accomplishes miracles that can happen in no other way.
My mentor Jon Simmons introduced me to the Stanislavski system, which is so heavy on back-story. So you write and write and write these back stories about a character and then you throw it away. So then on set, if it doesn't come, then you didn't do your work.