A line from one of my 1997 columns - 'Do one thing every day that scares you' - is now widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, though I have yet to see any evidence that she ever said it and I don't believe she did. She said some things about fear, but not that thing.
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One thing you might want to learn before you attend the world's largest ukulele lesson is how to say ukulele.
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Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you'll have a trust fund. Maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse. But you never know when either of them might run out.
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TV happens. And once it's happened, it's gone. When it's gone, you move on, no tears, no tantrums, no videotape.
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Opening day. All you have to do is say the words and you feel the shutters thrown wide, the room air out, the light pour in. In baseball, no other day is so pure with possibility. No scores yet, no losses, no blame or disappointment. No hangover, at least until the game's over.
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Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views.
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