You have to be patient. You have to give yourself a chance. When you’re first pursuing a job in a field like this, there’s a strong tendency to panic. When I took classes with Del Close, he would challenge all of us to wait - to not make the cheap, easy joke in a scene but to have faith that something funnier and more organic was on the way. It can be that way with a career too. There are a lot of times when your biggest task is just to stay calm and keep working.
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Former “Colbert Report” head writer Allison Silverman in And Here’s The Kicker. You could do worse for a mantra than “Stay calm and keep working.”
(via katespencer and anthonyking)
