Start date: July 4, 2025
End date: July 13, 2025
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She’s a woman that says “I’m gonna” before she can, “I would” before she could, and “I’ll be there” before she’s invited.
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Life’s hard. Shit happens to us. We make shit happen. To me, it was inevitable that I was staying the entire year because I’d shaken on it. I’d made a voluntary obligation with myself that there was “no goin back.”
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less impressed, more involved.
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We have to prepare to have freedom. We have to do the work to then do the job. We have to prepare for the job so we can be free to do the work. Knowing my man does not mean I know Spanish.
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We are performing in real time, where the approach is the destination, and there is no goal line because we are never finished.
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while I was still finding my balance with it, I wasn’t self-assured enough to share it with anyone else, especially my own mother.
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They are not trying to win arguments of right or wrong. They are trying to understand each other. That’s different.
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I felt like I was making B’s in all five. By shutting down the production company and the music label, I eliminated two of my five commitments with plans to make A’s in the other three.
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Those roles and stories I was looking for? The ones that would compete with the life I was livin? They weren’t coming my way, and again, I wasn’t sleeping well with the ones that were. It was time to make a change, to pivot, to make a new commitment.
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We made Dallas Buyers Club for 4.9 million dollars in twenty-five days. We did not ask permission. We did not flinch. We took the hill. I got down to 135.
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“Afraid of what?” “…Of losing myself,” I said.
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I loved performing. I loved creating. I loved getting lost in a character, then found.
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I haven’t made all A’s in the art of livin, but I give a damn, and I’ll take an experienced C over an ignorant A any day.