Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Kevin Smith's words of Wisdom

Been catching up on some of Director Kevin Smiths BLOG and lately he's been tossing out some great advice and motivation. About working at your craft and weight loss. I thought I'd toss a few of these gems your way. Cause I certainly enjoyed them:


The best revenge is when folks who’ve tagged & bagged you suddenly realize their true roles: they amount to little more than a footnote in the film of YOUR life. Now, I’m not spectral communicator & I don’t claim to congress with the dead. But I doubt ANY of this can be accomplished from the grave.

As far as I know, you get one life. Milk it, sir. Chocolate-milk it, if you’ve gotta, but milk it for all it’s worth (without harming others). Treat yourself like you treat the things you own: bag & board your life & put it somewhere fuckers can’t bend your pages, maybe even framed.

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Sadly, as far as I’ve learned, we can do NOTHING to alter death; it’s GONNA happen.

But life? We can shape & change the fuck out of life!

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Ignore the flock of Wah-Wahs, focus on what you love to do, and earn off it. And remember: once you get paid to do it, doesn’t matter whether someone thinks you’re good at it or not; opinions pay imaginary rents, kids. You get paid to do it, you’re a pro.

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the game’s rigged. So why play it on their terms?

Kobayashi Maru that shit: at the very worst, you get bitched-out by cowards. At best?

You BECOME James Tiberius Kirk.

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But for any writer, money is never the motivator: it’s that crushing need to get that story/blog/script/poem off your chest onto someone else’s mind. A writer doesn’t need motivation because a writer can never shut it off.

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