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Looking back, which parts of your working life mattered, and which parts only seemed important at the time?

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Read by field Everyone Arts and letters 2 Politics and public life 1 Business and finance 1 Sport 3
Read by age Any age In their forties 1 In their sixties 2 Seventy and beyond 3
Steve Martin Comedian, actor and writer
I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. 10 of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic.
Recorded Terry Gross, Fresh Air, NPR, 8 May 2020 source ↗

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