“ . . . art gets a terrible reputation by people affecting the appearance of creativity without offering the product of it.”

He also said this little nugget:

“Never trust a catastrophe. It has a way of turning into a miracle when you least expect it.”

Truth.

I responded, “Here’s the thing re that meeting. You have something THEY want. You will ONLY sell it to them if you’re in the moooooooood to sell it because you don’t neeeeeeeeeeeeeed to sell it. You MIGHT sell it. You might NOT. YOU are in charge. I know you THINK you’re HAVE to sell, but that is the exact stance that puts you at a disadvantage. Remember: your product will HELP them. If they want to HELP themselves, they will buy your fabulous product. If they want to continue suffering without your product, that’s their business. You don’t NEED them. You are a lovely, kind person who is taking time out of her fabulous, busy day to meet with them to see if you can help them be less miserable. KEEP THE POWER. DANGLE the CARROT. If they say, “We think your script is too x,” you respond, “Oh, that’s too bad. Everyone else seems to love the xness. So and So and Such and Such particularly commented on it. But hey, if it’s not for you, that’s ok. I hope you find what you’re looking for. Have a wonderful day.”

She wrote back, “It helps, I just don’t know if I have it in me to pull it off. The picture-them-naked thing NEVER works for me.”

So I sent her this amazing quote I heard from my teacher Tej (who came so highly recommended by many, including Angelique C and Courtney P) at Golden Bridge today. I think Yogi Bhadjan says it a LOT better. Don’t you?

Yogi Bhajan – 7/4/89 – “Show No Insecurity”:

Be in command. The statement is, “Be in gainful command.” Your posture should not be aggressive or shallow. It should be gracious, slightly bright, self contained. There is one thing every woman should learn. Show no insecurity. This is a key to royalty. If you take on this conscious behavior in forty days, seventy percent of your problems will be gone. Just show no insecurity, even if you are deadly insecure. “God, he is going to tell me to get out of the house, ‘pack up, you bitch’.” Show no insecurity even then. Men love that kind of woman.

You may be beautiful, intelligent, rich, working, supporting, and blindly in love, but show insecurity and you are done. Man by nature is a super insecure idiot. It is true, believe me. This whole macho thing unbuttoned shirt and all that, is make-up. This is a rat who growls like a lion. First of all you do not know how to be mad, then you get mad and you don’t know how to get out of it. In one second men are dead mad and the next minute they ask you out for dinner.

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“You have to let people see what you wrote. It will never be perfect, but perfect is overrated. Perfect is BORING on live TV. What I learned about “bombing” as an improviser at Second City was that bombing is painful, but it doesn’t kill you. No matter how badly an improv set goes, you will still be physically alive when it’s over. What I learned about bombing as a writer at SNL is that you can’t be too worried about your “permanent record.” Yes, you’re going to write some sketches that you love and are proud of forever–your golden nuggets. But you’re also going to write some real shit nuggets. And unfortunately, some times the shit nuggets will make it onto the air. You can’t worry about it. As long as you know the difference, you can go back to planning for gold on Monday.”

Persistent gratitude makes it easy.

And persistent action, tells one and all, “There ain’t no way, honey, I’m settling for less.”

I notice these things.

The Universe

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