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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.

It Is Only By Going Through A Volume Of Work That... Your Work Will Be As Good As Your Ambitions. And I Took Longer To Figure Out How To Do This Than Anyone I've Ever Met. It's Gonna Take Awhile. It's Normal To Take Awhile. You've Just Gotta Fight Your Way Through.

One Reason I Do The Live Shows - And The Monthly Speeches At Public Radio Stations - Is To Remind Myself That People Hear The Show, That It Has An Audience, That It Exists In The World. It's So Easy To Forget That.

I Just Feel Like There's So Many Movies I Haven't Seen That I Want To See, That I Would Never Go Back To The Same One. It's Funny Because All My Friends, They Have Movies That They've Seen Over And Over Again.

I Think The Thing That I Wish Somebody Would Ask Me Is Just To Ask About The Business Side Of The Radio Show. I Feel Like I Actually Work Very Hard To Make Sure The Business Side Of The Radio Show Runs, And No One Has Any Interest In How A Public Radio Show Is Run. And Rightly So.