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SS
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draws uh says what advice would you give
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to someone who is unsure about what to
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do in life whether it be career-wise or
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otherwise
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um career-wise or
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otherwise that's an intense question SS
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draws
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um so I'm just going to picture you're
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sitting in front of me and you're saying
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I don't know what I want to do
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professionally and I don't even know
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what I want to do with my
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life um my first and if you then ask me
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for advice which you are asking me for
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here now um I would
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say I would start asking you
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questions asking you to investigate
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yourself for the things that you like
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doing for the things that you can't stop
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thinking about for
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the kind of fiction or non-fiction that
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you read the areas of the world that
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Fascinate You or irritate
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you each one of us is sitting here in
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these you know am roughly ambulatory
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engines of our bodies and looking out
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and each of us latches on to different
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stuff about the world that moves Us in
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different ways
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and I think that there is value in
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investigating those those parts of your
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point of
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view the point of view that I have on
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the world it doesn't feel like it's mine
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it feels like it comes out of me and
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tells me what it
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is um I'm going to quote George Harrison
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again from Peter Jackson's incredible 8
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Hour Beatles documentary get back where
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Harrison says we don't know what the
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album is going to be yet because it
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hasn't told us when it tells us what it
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wants to be that's when we'll know the
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album that we're making and I believe
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that really
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powerfully
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that uh I my scepter my my British royal
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scepter uh fell down yesterday it's fine
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I really fell down right in front of me
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and yet it's totally fine anyway
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um the week that I made this the
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following week I made a
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sword and when I was done with them I
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was holding both of these things and
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they were both about the same size about
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the same weight they occupied about the
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same amount of space and these are very
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different objects this is jewels and
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well it grants wishes look see it lights
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up um and the sword is like it's
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violence so what so I when I finished
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these two things I asked myself well
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what is it in me that wants to that
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needed to build both of these
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objects um and there's a I'm still
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working that one out but it definitely
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has to do with u with ideas about
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objects and power um and the power that
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they imply and a sword implies very
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specific very obvious kind of power a
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scepter implies a
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different more subtle kind of power it
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says I have the resources to go pull
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incredibly valuable stuff out of the
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ground and hold on to and hoard it and I
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can use those resources to affect you so
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in a way The Sword and the scepter I
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submit I may end up displaying them
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together in the same box they're the
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same object at two different scales they
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are symbols of power at two different
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scales um that's
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me interrogating my own point of view
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after the fact and Tarantino talks about
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this too uh he talks about in the
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writing process because people say how
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do you layer all that culture into your
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writing he's like that's not how I'm
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thinking about it I'm writing the stuff
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that's got to come out of me and these
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characters are saying what they're
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saying and I'm servicing this story and
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after I've make the movie often is when
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he says I realize what I was referring
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to he's just pulling the stuff out of
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his head um so back to SS
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draws what is your point of view on the
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world is the question like what is
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the and again this is a process to
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understand and it will evolve and it
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will change over time but right now it
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may be that there's
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some uh some aspect of the world you
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want to fix um I have several friends
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who are civil engineers um and it's a
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very interesting kind of like uh I don't
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know why I thought about this but like
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civil engineering is very much a a
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profession that draws people who are
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like I want to go do that um I find a
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very specific kind of directedness among
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the civil engineers I have met and
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talked to in the world um and I I just
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I'm I'm always here for a specific point
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of view when it's when it comes from
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deep inside it's always going to be
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interesting and so SS
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draws I
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suspect from your username that maybe
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you hold an Implement and you might
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draw and so the question I'm going to
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ask you is like you don't have to join
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your Commerce and your art you don't
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have to draw for a living if even if you
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want to draw all the time um you don't
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have to sell it that's fine but
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if you need to draw you also need to
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adjust the Commerce in your life around
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wanting to draw again I'm making
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assumptions here but I'm just like I'm
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going to make an what feels like a a
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reasonable
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deduction
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um I have several friends who work
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jobs who work jobs they don't
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care about and don't talk about ever
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ever they just pay their bills and they
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do several other things that are
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creative and interesting and they never
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talk about their jobs during any of
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those things and like I really
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appreciate that that's that's totally
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reasonable and a totally effective way
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of going through life um but it all
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begins with what is the thing that you
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can't stop thinking about that's where
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that's where from an employment
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standpoint because you can't stop
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thinking about it that's where you're
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going to do the best
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work because you care about that thing
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you don't have to care about something
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to do good work with it but it certainly
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makes it easier you really don't have to
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care about something to do good work for
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it I mean that's what being a
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professional is is doing excellent work
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for the most like ludicrous piece of
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garbage I so many of the feature films I
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worked on and commercials were just
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terrible absolute drek uh and I did some
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spectacular work during those all of
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that is true um
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yeah we're yeah um Good Luck SS draws
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your your question has a plain of
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quality to it that makes me feel
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protective of you um and I I hope that
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examining your point of view and also
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you know talking to friends talking and
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getting a perspective from from an
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outside Source about your own point of
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view is also really really helpful um so
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if you do something creative I would
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advise you to find ways to get other
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people to see the creative output you're
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doing and give you feedback about it
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whether that's going into a group show
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or just asking someone hey can I show
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you stuff I'm working on and I'm curious
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of what you think that can give that
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perspective from the world about you and
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your point of view is really really
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important and
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