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I've found that instability from growth comes in waves. ”
I got my first job the old-fashioned way: I took an elevator to the top floor of many buildings and walked down floor by floor on the stairs going into every firm and asking the receptionist if she knew of any jobs available. ”
Film-making is a physically hard job. ”
My career has been spent developing airplanes. ”
Don't manage your career. Follow your dream and contribute. ”
More and more people realize the importance of economic growth, near-term and long-term in the U.S., and the competitiveness with other countries around the world. ”
Way back in the day, when I first started and had delusions of adequacy as a cartoonist, I would listen to music. When I switched to a career as a writer, I would try to listen to music, but if the songs had lyrics they would get in the way of the words I was trying to write. So I switched to listening to purely instrumental pieces. ”
In many ways, my entire graphic novel career was a long diversion. Originally, all I wanted to do was to be an underground cartoonist and maybe bring out a groovy underground mag. ”
My only problem with fans is when they turn pro. For example, when all the professional writers were fired by DC in the '60s, they brought in a generation of comic book fans who would have paid to have written these stories. ”
The job, when you write film underscore, is to be ignored. That comes with the gig, no question about it. ”