If you're behind the times, they won't notice you. If you're right in tune with them, you're no better than they are, so they won't care much for you. Be just a little ahead of them.
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I was so lucky that I didn't have anyone to copy, be impressed by. I had developed my own style, I was creating before I knew there was a Thurber, a Benchley, a Price and a Steinberg. I never saw their work until I was around thirty.Shel Silverstein
Rockabye Baby, in the treetop; Dont you know a treetopis no safe place to rock; And who put you up there, and your cradle too; Baby, I think someone down herehas got it in for you.
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There's a polar bear In our Frigidaire He likes it 'cause it's cold in there. With his seat in the meat And his face in the fish .... And he lets out a roar If you open the door. And it gives me a scare To know he's in there That polary bear In our Fridgitydaire.
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And every time he ate his tie,
Everyone began to cry.
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Cloony the Clown sat down and cried.
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And Cloony could not make any money
Simply because he was not funny.
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