“ I was teaching at an inner school in Philadelphia; it was a charity thing, an English class for kids, and I sat them down and I told them I have a mystery for you. I am probably the highest paid writer in the world, and I wasn’t even the smartest kid in my class, and I am not the strongest writer, and I had no connections anywhere in cinema, so how do you explain that? Other than luck, put luck aside for a second, so what’s going on? Some of the kids had interesting answers like determination, belief system, all that stuff for sure. I have an answer—I am more me than they are them. The point is, all your strengths and all your limitations, they are all part of who you are, and you should not try to be anything else. When a person speaks without self consciousness about who they are, it shines right through, it pops like a light. You are not trying to be funnier than you can be or cooler than you actually are, you are trying to be yourself, and when you do that, you erupt. The moment you try to fit in, you go into the general pot, and then it is entirely about luck, because you are in the same pot with everyone else. Don’t worry about whether there is a market for your voice. The thing is, I can never write you as well as you can write yourself. So if you can be who you are, speak with your own voice and without self consciousness, it can be a really dazzling thing.
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