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A rapper is about being completely true to yourself. Being an actor is about changing who you are. ↗

— Will Smith

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In black neighborhoods, everybody appreciated comedy about real life. In the white community, fantasy was funnier. I started looking for the jokes that were equally hilarious across the board, for totally different reasons. ↗

— Will Smith

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For me, there is nothing more valuable than how people feel in a movie theater about a movie. ↗

— Will Smith

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I love producing. I am loving doing that. I think that is my most natural space in the business. I just love producing or editing and that's where I thrive. ↗

— Will Smith

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I think with movies I am really connecting to the Joseph Campbell idea of the collective unconscious. ↗

— Will Smith

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My skin is hard when it comes to my music. But with my movies, I'm still a virgin in a lot of ways. I'm not used to being shot down for no reason. ↗

— Will Smith

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When I was growing up, I installed refrigerators in supermarkets. My father was an electrical engineer. ↗

— Will Smith

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But, strictly speaking, this mythology was no essential part of ancient religion, for it had no sacred sanction and no binding force on the worshippers. ↗

— William Robertson Smith

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Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in particular it requires an effort to reconcile our imagination to the bloody ritual which is prominent in almost every religion which has a strong sense of sin. ↗

— William Robertson Smith

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In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical rites that savage terror may dictate to the individual. ↗

— William Robertson Smith

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