from the radio producer Ira Glass, on feeling disappointed by your own work:

All of us who do creative work...get into it because we have good taste. But there’s a gap. For the first couple years that you’re making stuff, what you’re making...It’s not that great. It’s really not that great. It’s trying to be good, it has ambition to be good, but it’

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Nobody tells people who are beginners – and I really wish someone had told this to me – is that... all of us who do creative work we get into it, and we get into it because we have good taste. Like, you want to make TV because you love TV. Because there’s stuff that you just love .

So you’ve got really good taste, and you get into this thing, that –

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Tous ceux d’entre nous qui font un travail de création… le font parce qu’ils ont un goût sûr. Mais il y a cet écart… Les premières années, ce que l’on produit n’est pas terrible. Ce n’est pas génial. Ça se veut bien, ça a l’ambition d’être bien, mais ce n’est pas si bien que ça. Mais notre goût — la chose qui nous a poussés dans cette voie — est to

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