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  1. “Wow. Everything that I decided I wanted to do in life was very competitive. And I mean, sports, entertainment, you know, it's always been about, you know, it's funny because the whole thing is like, hey, man, it's a doggy, dog world, you know. But dogs don't eat other dogs. Have you ever seen a dog eat another dog? Never seen it. That happened. And I was like, wait a minute, you got to start questioning this stuff. You know what I mean? Because we take that like, yeah, man, you know, we got to fight to do this. And what happened was, see, I bought in. I bought in. This is how I know it doesn't work. I bought in. I was hook line and sinker about being competitive. I was out to beat everybody. I would look at people. I would look at you and smile and want to destroy you.”

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  2. “it was so funny because I was like guys you got to understand this you are what you are now there is only now this is all you have it's like if someone and I had to try to break it down where if you were trying to get to LA and you didn't know you were already here you just keep walking you keep going you be all over the face until finally you realize wait a minute I'm here But that's kind of the way fitness, success, any goal, any aspiration, you must be it now. That book, the thing you want to write or that thing you want to accomplish, you have to be it now. You are an author. So now what do authors do? Authors write. And when authors write, they have a book. And I'm telling you, it sounds really, really, really simple, but once you get it forever, you'll never think of anything the same way again.”

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  3. “Do you see what would a rich man do? And I started doing things that rich people did. And once I did it, I had it. And I was like, oh my God, it's worked. So I bought like 20 copies. I handed it out to family members and they were like, come on, what is it? I had people that are like, oh, thank you. Merry Christmas. I want some money.”

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  4. “With fitness, you are fit before your body ever gets in shape. You have to be fitness. Like, you know, every person who lost 200 pounds can tell you the moment way back then when they knew they were going to be their ideal weight. That's the moment they, it was my ideal way I'm going to be that. And then your body just goes right into it. I heard a great quote the other day, like, follow your heart and your body will catch up. And I think that that's the way it is with everything. And Master Key's system book broke it down where I had to say, I always had dreams of like, man, one day I'm going to have money. One day. And I said, wait a minute. Rich. I'm rich now. And this is the thing didn't have a penny But when you do things and you say, okay, now that I'm rich, what would a rich man do?”

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  5. “Oh man, but, you know, when I got this book called The Master Key System and what was wild to me, it broke down some things in ways that I could understand. Because you hear certain things, but you have to hear things in a different way so that you can grasp it. And one of the concepts in the book is that in order to have, you have to do And in order to do, you have to be. And I sat and I would contemplate this thing like a lot. And I was like, what does this mean? Like, what does this mean? Because it sounded like gibberish. It sounded a little bit like what is, is, what was will be, you know, that kind of stuff. What will be was, but will be again. But once you really examined it, is that, and I'll bring fitness into this. Yes.”

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  6. “Wow. Again, I am a self-help book nut. I therapize all the time. I have audiobooks going nonstop. And I've been doing that. I've been doing that for almost 25 years. Literally, I've probably read everything. This is why I'm a big fan of yours.”

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  7. “And you get what you desire. Everything about you, you get what you want. Now, the way your life is, truthfully, you want it. Now, that's hard. That's hard to say because a lot of people are like, no, wait, there's so many other options. It's this and this and this and this. But the truth is that if you wanted something different, you change it. And that hit me. Like, it's scary because if I failed or if I didn't, if I showed up wrong or messed up on something, I was like, I didn't really do what it took to get it. And again, that comes from taking that shot way back in high school. But now I realize, okay, get rid of any, what I call self-sabotage. And you can achieve whatever you need.”

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  8. “You took the shop, man. And this is another thing because what's so crazy is that no one ever remembers that game. It's one of the least important things in my life, but the lesson I learn is still guiding me today. The fact that go for it. Take your shot. Take your time. When you get that thing, when you have that opportunity, don't mess it up. Because this is another thing. And I want to tell you, Tim, the scariest thought ever is one thing that blew me away is that you really do get what you want. And let me tell you what I mean. There have been times when you can be self-destructive. And you think it's something else, or you think, like I discovered for a long time, like if I show up late or something twice, I don't want it.”

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  9. “I took the Took the shot. And I was like, I did. I did. And I kept thinking. It was like, man, look, when you had the chance, when everything was on the line, you took your shot, man. You did that. You did that. Now all of a sudden I was like, that's right. That's right. I took it. And I learned from then on, I said, man, wait a minute. If I win or if I fail, it's going to be on my turn. It's going to be up to me. If I have the opportunity, I have to go for it. And then I felt really good about losing the game. It was red. Now, you can call it reframing. A lot of people have scientific ways or psychological ways to do things, but I learn always to kind of reframe things so that it's to your advantage. You know what I mean? And you look at these things like, wait a minute.”

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  10. “And I was like, they didn't let me off one. And I remember just going, oh my God. And I went in the paper, and the paper the next day was like, Terry Cruz had a shot and he missed, you know. And let me tell you, it was the most dark. I mean, when you're 16 years old, I mean, beyond Christ. One guy was taunting me. I got in a fight after the school and the whole. And so it was a couple days went by and I was in the deepest bump. I'm sitting on my bed and I shared my room with my brother. But for some reason, he wasn't there. I always remember being there. It was kind of crazy. I don't ever remember being alone except that time. And I remember being alone and just thinking about, man, I should have passed it. I should have passed it. Maybe I messed up. And, you know, what else could I have done? And then another little voice. It said,”

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  11. “And let me tell you, that place goes nuts because it was the upset of the year. And I collapsed in a heap. And I know my life is over. And you got to understand. And this is another thing. Shame among men. It's like, oh, how could you do that? Yeah, other players were yelling at me. The coach, I was in the locker room. He was like, you had no business taking that shot. I stole the ball. We didn't have a shot anyway. But he was like, you have no business taking that shot. You should have passed it. Man, it's your fault. And the people, and everybody in the room was like,”

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  12. “I'm freaking out because now we're going to, it's evident we're going to lose because I'm going, man, this is a dumb defensive strategy anyway. We should have been going after it. But what happened is a guy threw the ball, their guy threw the ball cross court, I intercepted it with literally five seconds left to go. And I take the ball all the way down the court. You got to understand. I'm thinking I had visions of, oh my God, this is the thing. I'm the hero, you know, the heart is like pounding. I'm already at the party. You know what I mean? And I go with this layup and I bring it up there and it totally, it gets around the rim and it rolls.”

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  13. “And we had a coach who was like, well, you know what? I'm going to beat you at your own game. So we stayed in a zone. So we sitting there the whole time, and I'm telling you, it was the most boring game of all time. We just sat there with our hands up and they passed the ball. And if anything happens, somebody went and got it and you scored two. And it was just a mess. So the score was really, really low. They were up 47 to 45. And it was literally under a minute.”

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  14. “Oh man, yes. 1986. That was my senior year in high school. I went to Flynn Academy and it was a Class C school, but we were highly ranked in the state. And I used to be a basketball player. I mean, that was hard to believe now. Basketball was a big sport for me, but I was the starting center on this team. And what was wild is we were picked to go all the way in the state. We had a superstar on our team and we had a really, really good team. But we played against a school who decided not to play. It was the district championship. It was right at the beginning of the playoffs. And these guys would take the ball down the court and pass the ball to each other at the top of the court and wouldn't play.”

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  15. “Questions and trying to find answers, I would go to these books because it was all about finding answers, asking questions, questions, questions. I still have a thing on my social media called the hard questions where I just ask questions, man. If we can't ask questions, we're doomed. We're doomed. Okay, I'm done. I can't stop talking.”

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  16. “And I was like, oh shit, it's a whole nother deal. And I went to rehab. And this is another thing in black culture. You don't get therapy. It's viewed as very, very weak. You're viewed as, you know, you're a punk. You're sorry. And man, I broke through all of that. And I'm going to tell you, man, I can't, that's when it all started for me. And then the next goal was to start talking because even now, right now, this right here is therapy for me. It's therapy talking about things, sharing my heart. It helps me to line up what's right in my life. And I don't have to give this man props too. Because remember when I told you about looking for the answers and looking for the getting.”

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  17. “And let me tell you, man, I'll never forget my wife was like, I'm done. I'm out. I've had enough. And then at first, I was like, okay, go. Bye. You know, I'll just find another girl. It'd be all good. And all of a sudden, there was a little voice, and it said, maybe it's me. I was like, nah, it couldn't be me. Couldn't be. I mean, come on. She's out in the standing. And everything was looking out like this. Everything was blaming everybody else for what I was going through. The man, that voice came back again, it's like a cracked egg, man. Once that egg cracks, you can't close it up. You can't seal it again. And I was like, man, it is me. It is me. And man, let me tell you, it was like one day thinking that, you know, the sun revolves around the earth and then somebody going, no, no, no, no, no, no. We go around the sun, dude.”

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  18. “I did. I messed you up bad. I was like, I'm so sorry. I constantly apologize, constantly try to make amends because I was too tough. I was too hard. I was way. Now they look at the other ones and they look at, you treat them so good. I'm like, I know. I'm so sorry. What can I say? But again, my wife has been the example for me. And I remember when I had, you know, One of the biggest fights that I ever had in my life was an addiction to pornography. And, you know, I put it in my book, but the whole thing was... I had to, once I realized that I, Terry Cruz, thought that I was more valuable than my wife and kids simply because I was a man. And that allowed the pornography to exist in my life because they were objects”

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  19. “I'm going to be over here. And I was like, what are you talking about? Well, I'm winning. I'm winning. And she was like, no, baby. Uh-uh. Nope, nope. And I was like, whoa. And I realized just in those little ways, I was losing her. And so I have to put the cigar down. I'll come back over there. She said, not ask my tip today. I was like, oh wow And then I had to be the same way with my kids. Now I have two grown kids, actually three now. My old”

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  20. “At the same time. And she would always, always talk to me and tell me that Cherry, she would always tell me the truth. Like, there's nothing more valuable than somebody who's going to speak the truth into your life. And she would constantly tell me, this is wrong. The way you're acting right now is awful. And I'm like, what? What? I'm like all these other guys because that's what guys do. You compare yourself to all the other guys. And you say, but compared to them, I'm good, right? And, you know, she's like, I'm done. I'll never forget the first time I had a big job. I remember I got a big movie and whatever. And I remember I was walking around at this party and I had a cigar. And I was walking around and I was, man, I had the swag. I had the whole thing. She was like, okay, you can stay over there.”

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  21. “I would say it's an ongoing process. I would say over the last 17 years, you know what I mean? Literally from 17 years ago to now, it was like, whoa, especially after football. Like once football ended and the entertainment thing kind of happened, I had to learn like you can't fight your way out of things. You have to think your way out of things. And I noticed how my wife behaved. And I noticed how actually how women behave because women have to think their way out of all kinds of situations. Whereas guys, we can muscle our way through and do all this stuff and whatever. But I realized that that was not getting me anywhere. And my wife really taught me that vulnerability is not weakness. That I had to be vulnerable, but I had to be authentic.”

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  22. “You know, this is real, man. I learned it from my wife. You know, for me, listen, I've been a part of this super masculine, you know, the toxic masculine world for so long. And I had a come to Jesus meeting, so to speak. Like literally, everything was ending. I was a narcissist, totally. Still am a little bit, definitely. But I'm working on all that.”

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  23. “to be an action figure like always always back it up with movement don't talk about working out you can do it all day but do it and that was the big big distinction i've seen especially going up in the hood so many people man i'm finna do this i'm finna i'm finna and man I said, man, well, why haven't you? Why aren't you? And so everything you see me doing, I just said, I'm going. I'm trying. I'm going for it. I don't care. And we'll see what happens. Okay, questions.”

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  24. “It's something I can do all on my own. And I don't care. I don't have to, you don't have to like it. If I like it, it's okay. And it's become one of the things that in my life, that's what art is. It's literally subjective. It's what you want to see. And again, it's all about can I get this vision that's in my head on this piece of paper. But now it's almost like I want to my life has turned into art. I want the vision of who I am and who I want to be to be out in real life. I like this call myself a motivational doer. I hate talking so much. I'm a big talker, as you can tell. But the big thing is I want to back everything up with action.”

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  25. “I hate it. I got so much damn shit to say. It's just trying to get it off my chest, man. I'm getting off my chest. First of all, it's so wild because once you reach certain spots and you have to negotiate with these guys long enough to get what you need, to get what you have to have, and then you can move on. When I look at what art has done for me, And when I look at, you know, because right now I have a furniture collection, a furniture Bernhardt gave me a collection of furniture and I kind of segued into that and I still do art and I still paint and I still draw. I plan on literally having art shows. I mean later in my life just really becoming full-fledged with painting and drawing and the whole thing but one thing is that it's really been something that no one can take from me.”

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  26. “I know. My wife says he damn near interviews himself. That's the deal. That's why she's not here tonight. That's the lazy man's interview.”

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  27. “I don't have to put up with it. And it's kind of wild because you have to get to a point in every job and everything when you just had enough. Like there was times in the hood when I said I had enough and I fought back. Was a time when my dad, I said, I had enough. And I beat his ass. There was a time now when I've had enough with this shit. And I said, no more. No more. This I'm not going for. And it's wild because you give people a shout. You give people a shot. You give people a chance to make things right, to say, hey, man, you know, you're not doing me right. And this is the deal I learned too. I'm sorry, I know it's probably some questions, but I'm going off. I'm tired of hearing myself.”

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  28. “Okay, I'll be tying on right now. That's what I have to do. And it's so wild because you realize this negotiation thing keeps playing and it plays out in different ways. You know what I mean? And I'm going to have to bring it up because I want to bring up what's happening in Hollywood right now. Because you have a lot of people who are negotiating with terrorists. You're negotiating with people who are holding your dreams in their hands. And it's kind of wild because, you know, I've been through all this. I mean, all the way from my dad, all the way up to Hollywood. You spent 20 years building this career and I freaking have to negotiate with a terrorist for my own dream. And I'm sitting here like, wait a minute, man. I don't have to put up with that. Don't have to do this.”

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  29. “How demeaning that is. But I had to negotiate with this guy because he had my dream in his hand. And I was like, what am I going to do? Okay, this is my way to make money. This is my way out of Flint. It's my way out of doing whatever I got to do. You're Tyrone.”

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  30. “The drug dealer, you got the bully, you got the gang member, you're like, hey man, so I walk on this side of the street, other side of the street. Are we cool? Okay, or you gotta go, oh, you don't want me to go over there? All right, cool. All right, I didn't talk to you, girl. I didn't talk to your sister. I didn't, I didn't. Dude, so you're negotiating that. All right, go to football in that world. And you're negotiating with coaches. Let me tell you, I had a coach who was like, hey, man, I like Tyrone. This is a white guy. I'm going to call you Tyrone. I said, my name is Terry, Coach. He said, I like Tyrone. Your name is Tyrone. He called me freaking Tyrone. Do you know how abusive that is”

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  31. “So I remember trying to be very, very strong as a young kid. I would lift up couches, lift up, you know, make muscles. The whole thing was like I was obsessed with becoming strong. And what was wild is that right along with that, you had to be smart because this is another thing that's crazy is that in masculinity, we always say, hey man, we never negotiate with a terrorist negotiator, you always negotiate with a terrorist. Non-stop. Like, first of all, I had to negotiate with my father when he got mad. It was like, hey, man, you want another beer? What you need? Hey, man, I'll turn on the TV. Okay, everybody be quiet. Everybody be quiet because he's here. And I spent all my young days negotiating with that. Then you go outside and you got...”

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  32. “I didn't want all that, right? And so what I did, me and my best friend made a vow. We made a vow that whenever you learn something that I don't know, you are going to have to tell me. And if I learn something, you don't know. I'll promise to tell you. And this is how I got through my whole teenage years. Because no one, and let me tell you, my father was a drunk. He was abusive. He beat my earliest memory is him hitting my mother in the face as hard as he could and her to get knocked out. And I knew for a long time that I had to do something to get out. What that does to a five-year-old child is that you realize, okay, first of all, he says he loves her. And he just knocked her out. So, what is he going to do to me?”

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  33. “You're like, wait a minute, man. You just said we can do anything we want to do. You just said that. And I would call him on it. But what was wild is because, again, the factory town, everybody drove the same car. You had the same house. You had everything was the same. You went to the same stores. There was this one place called Meyer 50 Acres. Everybody would go, you would find all the same food. It was the same clothing. Everything was the same. And I didn't want any of it. And I remember just asking people, how do you get from here to there? Like, what's the secret to this? What's the one day you're going to find out? You just got to tough it out. And you're like, come on, man. You know, I'm nine. All right.”

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  34. “First of all, this is the oath. I love to demystify, okay, when I was a kid, no one would tell us anything, anything. And you got to understand, growing up in Flint, Michigan, it's a factory town, and it's literally crabs in a bucket. If you told people, I said this before, but people would say, you know, you can do anything you want to do, Terry Cruz. You can do it. And you tell them what you want to do. And they're like, what the hell make you think you can do that?”

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  35. “And I lay it, I said, look how much you helped me. You took me from here to there, sir. And they were like, you get an A, you are awesome. And that's how, and I, again, the whole thing was a scam, but I had to survive. I had to find a way to stay in school. Because this is the thing. A lot of people don't know, is that they could take your scholarship. It was crazy. It was one of those things where you're there as a body. And if you don't perform, they'll find a way to get rid of you. So that's a whole other subject.”

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  36. “I would go to these labs and I would make, and this is what I had it planned. In the summer, I would make probably 10 paintings, and then I would make four of them really suck. Like they would be really, really bad. And I would bring those in in the beginning in each of these labs, and I would go to the teachers. I was like, man, you know, what's wrong with this? Help me out here. He was like, oh, Terry, oh my God, look. Okay, we're going to work on your perspective and we're going to do this. And I was like, yeah, no, help me. And then I'll go home and then I go to practice for like a month and never do anything else because I had the paintings done. Then I bring another one in that was a little bit better. And let me tell you, I did this the whole semester, and then I would bring out the masterpieces”

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  37. “How much for them ways, man? You know, I was like, oh yeah. And I would do these masterpieces, but, you know, I have to tell you this too. I did have a scam. I had a scam. This is the scam in college. In college, I would, because what happened is I was playing football, but when you play football, you don't get money for supplies. You only get booked loans. See, scholarship is a gyp. All you got, I'm telling you, the NCAA is a gyp, dude. The whole deal. You are not a student athlete. You are semi-pro. That's all it is. There's no student in it. I'm just putting it right now. And what was crazy is that I was like, hey, but I want to study art. They were like, why don't you just study business or something so it's easier to get by? Because the whole thing is just getting by. Take a class so you can go to football class, football practice. But I was like, I'm an artist. They were like, okay, whatever.”

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  38. “I remember once, because football was hard, football was a very, very, again, another competitive deal. You would get on the team and I would get cut. I was like, I have to depend on this art thing because this is what got me here. And so I would go back in the locker room. And this is how I was married. I had two kids at the time. I would go back in the locker room and go to the players and I would ask them if they wanted their portraits painted. And the weird thing is they were like, oh, man, come on, man. You can't do it. And I was showing my portfolio and they were like, damn, dude. And I was like, look, man, I'm going to paint you over this big, you know, I'm going to put you and you're going to be a giant over the city and I can have wings and you can do. And let me tell you, you know, football players are the most egotistical people in the world. They were like, oh, damn, yeah, man. I want the wings, though.”

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  39. “I get to do so many things that so many people never got to see. I get to go so many places and do so many things that none of the people who wanted to were able to. I feel like there is a responsibility, but also if I don't do it. Everything they've gone through is nothing. So the way I approach things is really, it's kind of for everyone else. You know, I have to try it. I have to go for it. And I knew even as I was doing football and I was doing all this stuff.”

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  40. “Then you couldn't tell me nothing. I was like, damn it, I'm good. I got too arrogant. Then I got arrogant. You know what I mean? I'm the best one here. And then you have to be humble some other way. But that let me know. I was like, wow, I can do it. I can do it. I'm really as good. These people, this is all over the world. And then I got a scholarship to Western Michigan University in art. But it was small. It wasn't Fulride, but it was a small deal. So I got an art scholarship and walked on to the football team. And my mom passed away about almost three years ago. And she always would tell me, she was like, whatever you do, I know you doing all this football stuff. You're doing all this other things, but never forget you're an artist, babe. You're an artist. telling you I see what I'm doing right now. And I get to”

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  41. “the sky coming from the Cleveland Institute of Art. He's going to judge each painting. And we want to see who's the best. And I was like, oh man, you know, and so I did my deal and I put on, it was a wall full of art. And the art guy pointed at mine and he said, that one's the best one. And he went all the way across the room, and he said, that one, and they were both mine. And I was like. Now, life is a confidence game.”

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  42. “It's weird because you got to let people believe in you, but I didn't believe in myself. And when I got a chance to go to Interlocket and study with people from Europe and from Brazil and from, and these was mainly music students, and then they had art students, and it was just as, coming from Flint, I mean, coming from the hood. And then this changed my life. Once I remember we had, and it was really big on competition. Very, very big on competition. It was like, if you were a violinist, you had to be the first chair and second chair. And I remember all these kids were disappointed because they kept moving down and they would just feel like they were crushed. And the same thing with art. They gave us two paintings. We had to do two drawings and we had the whole class doing all these drawings. And they said, put your drawings on the wall and don't put your name on them. We have this.”

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  43. “To do this, nobody's good, but I got to use football. Well, he filled out all the applications for me. And I didn't even know. This is crazy. And he took my pictures and my paintings and everything that I did, he took and got them photographed, did all this stuff, sent him to Interlocking Arts Academy. Now, Interlocking is just world famous. Big, big deal. Arts camp up in northern Michigan near Traverse City. And you study with people from all over the world. And he literally came to me and told me he had already filled out everything. And he said, Terry, you have a scholarship from Chrysler, full ride, to go to Interlock and Arts Academy. And I was like, what are you talking about? You know, first of all, I didn't think it was possible. This is the deal. There's a lot of things, you know,”

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  44. “There were two ways out, and one was through music and performing, another way was athletics, but art never, you couldn't get paid doing art. You know what I mean? It was kind of everybody's like, that's a wonderful picture, but you're a starving artist. That's the whole term, you know. And I remember just saying, okay, I'm going to do this art thing, but I had to do the football thing too. And these were my ways out. Now, I didn't believe that I was actually going to get any kind of light as an artist, but I had one teacher, one man, Mr. Eichelberg. I'll never forget this. And he was like, he said, Terry, you are an amazing artist. He was like, I'm the art teacher. You're better than me. And he said, you can go somewhere with this. And I was like, okay, but, you know, nobody's going to pay.”

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  45. “Man, you got to know. I mean, growing up in Flint, there were a number of obstacles. I mean, crazy, crazy obstacles, because I grew up in the, I mean, at the height of the crack epidemic and also the demise of the auto industry. So there were two things happening at once, and they were both horribly bad. I mean, it was like the 80s Probably late 70s all the way through the 80s into the 90s was literally the walking dead. And it was real. I mean, you had people who were cracked out. I had friends, family who one day, you know, whatever good people, the next day, they were stealing everything you had, all the way to everyone you knew were losing their jobs, and it was a panic. And I remember...”

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  46. “I got better and better, but this is a deal too, is that I was always, always disappointed as an artist because it never looked the way I wanted it to look. So every drawing, every painting became this effort to make what was in my head match what was on the paper. I'm still doing that. I mean, in regards to performances, in regards to drawing, in regards to my furniture, in regards to all the things that I've ever tried to do, it's still not as good as it is in my head. And that's crazy. It's weird, but... I think my whole life has been trying to match up with this thing and this vision that I have in my head. And I don't think I'll ever get there, but it's fun to try.”

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  47. “Wow. First of all, I grew up in Flint, Michigan. Very popular place right now I drank the water I'm a little crazy. But the deal was that I've always been left-handed, right-brained, very visual about everything in my life. And I remember I have a older brother and a younger sister when my mom was off to school. I was about four, you know, five years old. I hadn't gone to kindergarten yet. I used to just sit and draw all day long. And it was something where I remember being inside of a painting or a picture or a drawing and time would stop. I would be there for almost, I remember starting a drawing or whatever. It would turn into night. It would be eight hours to have gone by, and it felt like literally 20 minutes”

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