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Inspiration is for Amateurs

June 15, 2009 - 12:55pm — matt (not verified)

Prior to one of Charlie Rose's interviews with Chuck Close, the staff recorded a 'Charlie's Green Room' clip, where Close says, "Inspiration is for amateurs, the rest of us just show up and get to work." This is a paraphrase of pretty much all the best advice that I've never followed. I'm still waiting for the muse to pay me a visit, to my chagrin.

One treasured memory of when I lived in New York was watching Charlie Rose almost every night at 11 on channel 13 WNYC. The image would sometimes flicker when I walked between the rabbit ears and the tower on the World Trade Center. At the time that seemed annoying, but from what I've seen of digital TV, with its blocky, pixelated artifacts, occasionally dropping out altogether, I definitely prefer analog.

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