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Chapter 15
James Burrows directs more by ear than by eye.
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Finding My Stride
My weirdness was appealing to the right people in the right way. Use everything about your quirks and they will become assets to certain corporate folks in the right lighting.
Like Sean Morissette’s Do What You Love and You’ll Never Work a Day in Your Life, where he turned his puppeteering into many other jobs.
— Jun 24, 2026 06:18AM
James Burrows directs more by ear than by eye.
AND
9:15.45
Finding My Stride
My weirdness was appealing to the right people in the right way. Use everything about your quirks and they will become assets to certain corporate folks in the right lighting.
Like Sean Morissette’s Do What You Love and You’ll Never Work a Day in Your Life, where he turned his puppeteering into many other jobs.
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Always maintain the attitude of a student. When a person thinks they are finished with learning, that's when bitterness and disappointment can set in. As human beings, we by the very definition, can never be perfect. This means as long as we are alive and kicking, we can be improving ourselves. If we always have a project, no matter our age, to which we can apply ourselves, then we'll wake up every day with an object
— Jun 16, 2026 10:57AM
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Absolute fan-FUCin-tastic Common Sense advice how to treat others, mutual admiration and praise for the dozens who got him there! Oh, and he’s getting funnier!!
— Jun 10, 2026 05:21PM
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Ron Swanson is 88% Nick Offerman. Yet, far less laissez-faire attitudes when it comes to political or social involvement and far more of health-conscious regarding foodstuffs - though “Parks and Recs” entire slant on all things FOOD was hilariously warped.
Regardless, not quite as LoL funny as others Comedians’ Memoirs (only a quarter in), yet very insightful and I’m looking forward to more from Offerman.
— Jun 09, 2026 10:54PM
Regardless, not quite as LoL funny as others Comedians’ Memoirs (only a quarter in), yet very insightful and I’m looking forward to more from Offerman.

