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You'd Think That Radio Was Around Long Enough That Someone Would Have Coined A Word For Staring Into Space.

You Will Be Stupid. You Will Worry Your Parents. You Will Question Your Own Choices, Your Relationships, Your Jobs, Your Friends, Where You Live, What You Studied In College, That You Went To College At All... If That Happens, You're Doing It Right.

What Nobody Tells People Who Are Beginners… Is That All Of Us Who Do Creative Work, We Get Into It Because We Have Good Taste. But There Is This Gap. For The First Couple Years You Make Stuff, And It’s Just Not That Good. It’s Trying To Be Good, It Has Potential, But It’s Not… Your Taste Is Why Your Work Disappoints You… We Know Our Work Doesn’t Have This Special Thing That We Want It To Have. We All Go Through This… It Is Only By Going Through A Volume Of Work That You Will Close That Gap, And Your Work Will Be As Good As Your Ambitions.

Don't Wait Till You're Older, Or In Some Better Job Than You Have Now. Don't Wait For Anything. Don't Wait Till Some Magical...idea Drops Into Your Lap. That's Not Where Ideas Come From. Go Looking For An Idea And It'll Show Up. Begin Now.

I Don't Like That Whole "art Should Challenge You" Thing. Because I Don't Feel Like Art Actually Does Challenge You. I Was A Semiotics Major At Brown, And There's This Idea That Stories Are Better, Books Are Better, And Movies Are Better If They Cocked You Off Your Axis And You Were Completely Disoriented And You'd Really Have To Rethink Everything.