” I hopped on a train with some Polaroids I’d taken with a disposable camera. I got fortunate, got signed right away, and started working from the get-go. I planned to only do it for the summer, but then I fell in love with it, and I have never looked back.”
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“Suppose I were to give you a key ring […] with a hundred keys, and I was to tell you that one of these keys will unlock it, this door we imagine opening in onto all you want to be, as a player. How many of the keys would you be willing to try?’
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‘Well, I’d try every darn one,’ Rader tells Lyle.
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‘Then you are willing to make mistakes, you see. You are saying you will accept 99% error. The paralyzed perfectionist you say you would stand there before that door. Jingling the keys. Afraid to try the first key.”
“MY STATEMENT IS: LIFE AIN’T EASY; IT’S SIMPLE. IF YOU BELIEVE IN SOMETHING, JUST-DO-IT-YOURSELF. I THINK EVERYBODY SHOULD FOLLOW THEIR DREAM, CAUSE YOU’LL ONLY HAVE ONE TICKET. LIVE A LITTLE, FOR FUCK’S SAKE.”