And then it was like, wait, you can go to college and study theater? And act in plays? This is almost a racket, you know. And then when the opportunity came along to do it professionally, I thought I'd won the lottery.
Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.
The trick to writing for people is, you have to be able to turn them on in your head. And know how they'd word something or how they'd inflect it.