Way to make me feel fucking good about myself and, in danger of inflating my depressingly flat ego these days, I would like to draw your attention to the following!
"If you decide to be an actor, stick to your decision.The folks you meet in supposed positions of authority -- critics, teachers, casting directors -- will, in the main, be your intellectual and moral inferiors. They will lack your imagination, which is why they become bureaucrats rather than artists; and they will lack your fortitude, having elected institutional support over a life of self-reliance. They spend their lives learning lessons very different from the ones you lean, and many or most of them will envy you and this envy will express itself as contempt. It's a cheap trick of unhappy people, and if you understand it for what it is, you need not adopt or be overly saddened by their view of you. It is the view of the folks on the verandah talking about the lazy slaves."
David Mamet - True and False - 1998 - p. 110
I think this can be true of any artist of any background: writer; musician; painter; sculptor; designers; etc. etc.
Remember kids, always follow your dreams, ignore the naysayers, follow them!
Peace, Love, Unity.
XxxxXxxxX
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