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re: Still, ask Marsha Norman.

Posted by:	ryhog 02:20 pm EST 01/16/15
In reply to:	re: Still, ask Marsha Norman. - JohnPopa 12:57 pm EST 01/16/15

I think there are shows where the laziness is easily discernible. I think there are shows in which prodigious effort is displayed and the result still comes up short. People sometimes post great praise here for hard workers. But at the level we are usually talking about here, hard work is not enough; it is about talent for which hard work is not a substitute. You cannot make yourself funny by hard work, you cannot write a song people want to hear by hard work, etc. That doesn't mean you don't have to work hard because you have talent, but it does mean that (as you say) there is a disconnect between intent and quality.

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