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Here’s a simple rule: If you’re not willing to bet $1000 on your success within 6 to 12 months, then either your goal is quixotic or you don’t know enough about the field yet.
… the flawed idea that getting started is the most important step is best left to cheesy motivational speakers — winners make plays with confidence.
” — From CEOs to Opera Singers - How to Harness the “Superstar Effect” - StumbleUpon“Take, for instance, graduate school. As soon as Franco finished at UCLA, he moved to New York and enrolled in four of them: NYU for filmmaking, Columbia for fiction writing, Brooklyn College for fiction writing, and—just for good measure—a low-residency poetry program at Warren Wilson College in North Carolina. This fall, at 32, before he’s even done with all of these, he’ll be starting at Yale, for a Ph.D. in English, and also at the Rhode Island School of Design. After which, obviously, he will become president of the United Nations, train a flock of African gray parrots to perform free colonoscopies in the developing world, and launch himself into space in order to explain the human heart to aliens living at the pulsing core of interstellar quasars. Franco says all of his pursuits are possible, at least in part, because he’s cut down on his acting, but he’s still doing plenty of that. In the next year or so, he’ll be appearing in the films Eat, Pray, Love (as Julia Roberts’s boyfriend), Howl (as Allen Ginsberg), 127 Hours (as the one-armed hiker), Your Highness (a medieval comedy), William Vincent (an indie film by one of his NYU professors), Maladies (put out by his own production company), and Rise of the Apes (a prequel to Planet of the Apes). And of course there’s his epically weird stint on General Hospital—the crown jewel in the current science project of his career.” — The James Franco Project
“James Gandolfini once shut down The Sopranos after he found out he was only making as much money as the housekeeper on Frasier.” —
Priceless: Why No One’s Saying What Charlie Sheen Got
You don’t get what you don’t ask for.
arig:
“I used to call people, then I got into e-mailing, then texting, and now I just ignore everyone.” - The New Yorker
Yes.
I’ve been TELLING you that The New Yorker spies on my life. When will you people believe me?!?!
+1 New Yorker, plus, one.
CONTEST
As of recently, i’ve had the urge to start painting again and i want to do something for a random follower of my blog. Reblog this and im going to randomly choose someone at the end of the month to send an awesome painting to !
Me please?