These are a few of my Favorite Things:

LINKS
Actors InC | the best acting workshop you could ever pray for
Overnightprints.com: best business cards ever
Modelmayhem.com: the ultimate photographer/model barter system
Actorsaccess.com: the ultimate casting site
Mandy.com: castings
Craigslist.org: castings
Sendoutcards.com: efficient sentimentality

BOOKS
The Purpose-Driven Life by Rick Warren
I Kissed Dating Good-bye by Joshua Harris
The Arists Way by Julia Cameron

The Success Principles by Jack Canfield
Young, Fabulous, and Broke by Suze Orman
Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff by Kris and Richard Carlson
Roadtrip Nation: A Guide to Discovering Your Path In Life

Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
Dispatches from the Edge by Anderson Cooper
The Secrets of Skinny Chicks by Karen Bridson
A Million Little Pieces by James Frey

QUOTES
“Talent is from God…be humble. Fame is from man…be grateful. Conceit is from self…be careful.”

“The secret to my success is that I bit off more than I could chew, then I chewed as fast as I could.” -Paul Hogan

“Good things come to those who wait, but it’s what’s left over from those who hustled.” -Abraham Lincoln

“I can accept failure, but I can’t accept not trying.” -Michael Jordan

“Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, champagne in one hand – strawberries in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming WOO HOO – What a Ride!”

“Fall down seven times, get up eight times.” -Japanese proverb

“Rosa sat so Martin could walk, Martin walked so Obama could run, Obama ran so that our children can fly.” -Jay-Z

“You can’t change the cards you’re dealt, just the way that you play them.” Randy Pausch

“Nothing tastes as good as fit feels.”

If you’re going to doubt anything, doubt your own limits.”

“Don’t ever let someone tell you that you can’t do something. You got a dream, you gotta protect it. People can’t do something, so they wanna tell you that you can’t do it. You want something, go get it. Period.”
-The Pursuit of Happyness

“I’m tired of chasing my dreams. I’m just gonna find out where they’re going and hook up with them later.”
-Mitch Hedburg

“Hold on tightly, let go lightly.”

“If you keep doing what you’re doing, You’ll keep getting what you got”

“Lord, grant me the strength to change the things I can, the serenity to accept the things I cannot, and the wisdom to know the difference.”

“You have to be open to life because you don’t know how it’s going to unfold. You just have to learn to be still, pray and let God lead the way.” -Chili, TLC

“The greater the struggle, the greater the victory. “Most people allow struggles and fear of failure to stop them. The key is to learn from your struggles and move on. Failures will make you stronger and give you the information you need to reach your Dream. Struggle will prepare you for success. Without struggle there is no success.” -Rudy

“some will, some won’t; so what – someone’s waiting.”

“what you want wants you.”

“Never give up on your dream…Perseverence is all important. If you don’t have the desire and the belief in yourself to keep trying after you’ve been told you should quit, you’ll never make it.” -Tawni O’Dell, author

“‘No’ is a word on your path to ‘Yes.’ Don’t give up too soon. Not even if well-meaning parents, relatives, friends, and colleagues tell you to get a ‘real job.’ Your dreams are your real job.” -Joyce Spizer, author

“When you’re in your twenties, you live to please other people. When you’re in your thirties, you get tired of trying to please others, so you get miffed with them for making you worry about it. When you’re in your forties, you realize nobody was thinking about you anyway!”