In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
When I finished my residency in New Orleans, I went to L.A. where I would work as a doctor during the day, and then at night I would actually go to The Improv and do standup, all the while kind of cultivating my comedy resume.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning could write a poem two pages long. Could she have brought it to a music publisher?