I tap danced for ten years before I began to understand people don't make musicals anymore. All I wanted to do was be at MGM working for Arthur Freed or Gene Kelly or Vincent Minelli. Historical and geographical constraints made this impossible. Slowly but surely the pen became mightier than the double pick-up time step with shuffle.

Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.

Your mid-thirties is a good time because you know a fair amount, you have some self-control.

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