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My Philosophy of Little Victories

My Philosophy of Little Victories

You have to have an internal definition of success to survive in a creative life

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Apr 29, 2021
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At various points in my life I aspired to be authors Richard Wright and Ernest Hemingway, critic/historian Greil Marcus, filmmaker Frances Ford Coppola, and playwright August Wilson and a few other powerhouse creators whose work I admired. Then, at a certain point, you realize that emulation only gets you so far and you have figure out who you are.

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