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Advice to someone who just moved to NYC and wants to break into the comedy scene:


One, I would take some classes at the UCB. Two, the secret to the success of The State was we never waited for anyone to ask us to do anything, or for anyone’s approval to do anything. We just fucking did stuff. We were shooting all the time, writing all the time. We would put up a live show every couple of months. We were aggressive. If you wait around for an opportunity to come up, it’s not coming. It isn’t, ever. Opportunities are not coming. The only opportunities that are coming are the ones you create. Otherwise you are just waiting around.

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Thomas Lennon (via Splitsider)  (via anthonyking)

This is spot-on.  Take UCB class, meet other awesome people, and go out and make stuff on your own terms.

(via charlietodd)

Charlie Todd gets it. This stuff he clipped applies in Austin, too. Check it one point at a time:

  • “never waited for anyone to ask us to do anything, or for anyone’s approval to do anything”
  • “just fucking did stuff”
  • “shooting all the time, writing all the time”
  • “were aggressive”
  • “Opportunities are not coming. The only opportunities that are coming are the ones you create. Otherwise you are just waiting around.”

Keep doing stuff, Austin. Don’t wait around.

(Thanks, Charlie.)

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People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I’m actually as proud of the things we haven’t done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying ‘no’ to 1,000 things.

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Steve Jobs (via brycedotvc)

Learning this is a big part of becoming an adult.

I’m almost there.

(via superamit)

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